INTERACTIVITY Ana-Maria Raus and its discontents

Background

Overview I. Exploring Interactivity II. Enhanced Publications and Interactivity III. A Look into the Future

I. Exploring Interactivity  Enthusiasm  Improved participation, collaboration, knowledge  Discontent  Disciplines  Older theories and new practices  Composite concept

I. Exploring Interactivity 1) Interaction  two or more elements are actively engaged in a process of information exchange  Goffman (1959): front-stage & backstage 2) Technology  McLuhan (1994): the medium is the message  Digital media 3) User-experience  Dixon (2007): navigation, participation, conversation, collaboration  HCI

II. Enhanced Publications and Interactivity  SURF Foundation Netherlands  13 Enhanced Publication (EP) projects  DRIVER I & II  Enriched vs. enhanced  Observer & imagined user  List of questions  Interactivity framework  users, technology, interaction

1) User-experience a) General public b) Researchers as readers c) Researchers as content-creators d) Technically skilled researchers as software-creators e) Library & depository staff 2) Technology  Quality-control  Tools & Outputs 3) Interaction  Social  Institutional II. Enhanced Publications and Interactivity Navigation Participation Conversation Collaboration Navigation Participation Conversation Collaboration

III. A Look into the Future  iPad / Kindle  Our Choice, Al Gore  Smartphones  Augmented publications  Enhanced publications – reversing the enhancement  “we wish to enrich the tangible, emotional, and intimate connection that paper brings, with all the new dimensions of the digital world” (Editions Volumiques official website)

Technology Users Interaction

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