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The use of interactive multimedia has a big influence in the world of education, especially mathematics learning. This development research aims to produce interactive multimedia product on learning rectangles and triangles for grade IV to facilitate and motivate students in understanding and mastering mathematical concepts. Media development uses the Alessi & Trollip development model which has three stages, namely planning, design, and development including alpha testing and product beta testing to determine its feasibility. Alpha test results, product that has been developed is declared valid after repairs are made to the product. The beta test results show that multimedia is declared practical after a product revision is made. The application of interactive multimedia that has been developed in learning has an impact on improving the learning outcomes of fourth-grade students of SDN 157 Palembang, namely 85.71 percent of students have reached the minimum completeness criteria with an N-gain average value of 0.65 with moderate criteria. Pemanfaatan multimedia interaktif memberikan pengaruh besar dalam dunia pendidikan khususnya pembelajaran matematika. Penelitian pengembangan ini bertujuan untuk menghasilkan produk multimedia interaktif pada pembelajaran persegi panjang dan segitiga untuk kelas IV guna mempermudah dan memotivasi peserta didik dalam memahami dan menguasai konsep matematika. Pengembangan media menggunakan model pengembangan Alessi & Trollip yang memiliki tiga tahapan yaitu perencanaan, desain dan pengembangan termasuk uji alpha dan uji beta produk untuk mengetahui kelayakannya. Hasil uji alpha, produk yang telah dikembangkan dinyatakan valid setelah dilakukan perbaikan terhadap produk. Hasil uji beta menunjukkan bahwa multimedia dinyatakan praktis setelah dilakukan revisi produk. Penerapan multimedia interaktif yang telah dikembangkan dalam pembelajaran berdampak terhadap peningkatan hasil belajar peserta didik kelas IV SDN 157 Palembang yaitu 85,71 persen peserta didik telah mencapai kriteria ketuntasan minimal dengan nilai rerata Ngain yaitu 0,65 dengan kriteria sedang.

This study aims to analyze the function of alternative learning media (interactive multimedia) during the Covid 19 pandemic. This research uses qualitative research methods based on library research (library research). Collecting data using documentation techniques derived from library sources. Data analysis uses content analysis techniques where each source or literature used is adjusted and the context's suitability is seen with other literature from books, journals or other research. Applications and multimedia content can be used as a learning resource during online learning, and ensure that the learning process remains active even though it is not done face-to-face. This involves all facilities and support to ensure online learning can be done starting from internet access, devices in the form of smartphones or notebooks, and the availability of adequate signals. Multimedia also makes it possible to increase children's interest and motivation to learn, which often decreased during the Covid 19 period. Multimedia is also a step to stimulate student understanding of the material being taught accelerated.

Abstract: This study aims to: (1) describe the feasibility of developing learning media for recount texts containing local figures, and (2) describe the results of the development of learning media for recount texts containing local figures in the form of integrated media that is websites. This research method is Research and Development (R&D) with a 4-D model (Define, Design, Develop, and Disseminate). The results showed that: (1) validation of material experts with an average of 85.25% on very good criteria; (2) expert validation of instructional media design with an average of 91.25% on very good criteria, (3) individual trials with an average of 75% with good criteria , (4) small group trials with an average of 82.5% with very good criteria, and (5) limited field group trials with an average of 93% with very good criteria. The final activity of developing instructional media is continued by observing student learning outcomes in rewriting the recount text containing local figures. The learning outcomes of the recount text writing test before using learning media were 73.85, while using learning media increased by 86.05. Difference of 12.2 from before to after using media. This proves that the learning media for recount texts containing local figures that are developed can improve student learning outcomes. Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan: (1) mendeskripsikan kelayakan pengembangan media pembelajaran teks cerita ulang bermuatan tokoh lokal, dan (2) mendeskripsikan hasil pengembangan media pembelajaran teks cerita ulang bermuatan tokoh lokal berupa media yang dipadukan dalam bentuk website. Metode penelitian ini adalah Research and Development (R&D) dengan model 4-D (Define, Design, Develop, and Disseminate). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa: (1) validasi ahli materi dengan rata-rata 85.25% pada kriteria sangat baik; (2) validasi ahli desain media pembelajaran dengan rata-rata 91.25% pada kriteria sangat baik, (4) uji coba perorangan dengan rata-rata 75% dengan kriteria baik, dan (5) uji coba kelompok lapangan terbatas dengan rata-rata 93% dengan kriteria sangat baik. Kegiatan akhir dari pengembangan media pembelajaran ini dilanjutkan dengan melihat hasil belajar siswa dalam menulis kembali teks cerita ulang bermuatan tokoh lokal. Hasil belajar tes menulis teks cerita ulang sebelum menggunakan media pembelajaran sebesar 73.85, sedangkan menggunakan media pembelajaran meningkat sebesar 86.05. Selisih 12.2 dari sebelum ke sesudah menggunakan media. Hal ini membuktikan bahwa media pembelajaran teks cerita ulang bermuatan tokoh lokal yang dikembangkan dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar siswa.

This research aims, (1) to know the description of the need for interactive multimedia development, (2) the validity, (3) practicality, and (4) the effectiveness of interactive multimedia products in learning simulation and digital communication. This research is a research and development (R&D) using the ADDIE development model with the subject of research as a material expert, a media expert, subject teacher, and forty students. Data was collected by interviews, questionnaires, and tests. The data obtained in this study are qualitative and quantitative data. The results of research are: (1) The level of need for interactive multimedia in learning learning simulation and digital communication for 10th grade student at SMK Muhammadiyah Sidenreng Rappang is very high. This is evidenced by the value of student learning outcomes that have reached the minimum completeness criteria after using interactive multimedia. (2) The results of the product validation data analysis are in the very valid category, this is obtained from the validation assessment of material and media experts. (3) The results of the respondents' evaluation of small group trials and teacher responses to interactive multimedia products are stated to be very practical. (3) Interactive multimedia in simulation learning and digital communication developed effectively as seen from the average recapitulation of learning outcomes assessment shows an increase in learning scores of all students is above the minimal completeness criteria value.

Implementation of distance learning in elementary school during the Covid-19 pandemic, through pre-research observations it was found that many use monotonous learning media causing students get bored in practice distance learning. Elementary school students make social sciences as their least preferred content and the low knowledge of elementary school students about the diversity of national cultures becomes a serious problem and must be addressed immediately. This research aims to developed learning media in the form of interactive learning multimedia material on Indonesia cultural diversity in social sciences learning for fourth grade elementary school students. This research is a type of R&D (Research and Development) using the ADDIE development model. This research was involved 3 validators namely material, instructional design, and media experts as well as reviewers 1 teacher and 12 grade fourth elementary school students. Data collection methods and data analysis using questionnaire and descriptive analysis methods. In trials by material experts, the score percentage of 90%, by learning design experts with a score percentage of 92,5%, media experts obtained results with a score percentage of 95%, so from the experts obtained category A very good qualification (very feasible). The results of the review from 1 grade IV elementary school teacher with a score percentage of 91.7%, review of 3 students in individual trials with a score percentage of 91.1%, the results of user reviews 12 students in the small group trial with a score percentage of 93.9%, were in the category A very good qualification (very feasible). Based on the result that obtained, the interactive learning multimedia content material Indonesia’s cultural diversity is very feasible and can be used in social sciences learning for fourth grade students of Elementary School.

Ample survey research and content analysis has established that NGO internet presence is qualitatively weak and characterized by the dominance of asymmetrical communication. We argue that the emergent communicative and social paradigm of on-line interaction forms what could be defined as a wicked problem. NGOs, seen as a ‘sender’ of information, may well face a crisis of accountability determined by the very nature of the media; whereas the NGOs’ ‘information receivers’ often are deprived of the very possibility of stakeholder relatedness. In the internet-based/on-screen ‘universe’, information and electronic flow are assumed to be continual, which supersedes the entity logic crucial to NGO accountability and legitimacy. In designing their social media presence, NGOs may, therefore, face an impossible challenge.Informed by Stéphane Vial’s analysis of the nature of on-line interactive media, we evaluate these conundrums. Then, inspired by Lucas Introna and Fernando Ilharco, we question the dialogic potential to ‘screen-being’. While the shift from an ‘actor-centric’ to ‘flow-oriented’ paradigm of ‘screen-being’ is inherent to digital communication, it destabilizes the entity-grounded accountability of NGO legitimacy. Hence, we end with explicating the risks to dialogic relatedness of ‘sceen being’ for NGOs. By so doing, we challenge the oft vocalized perspective that NGOs ‘just’ have to increase their digital communications in order to improve their relations with various stakeholders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study builds a multilevel model of the influence of media information use and neighborhood risk factors on preventive behaviors. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, multilevel modeling was implemented with individual-level survey data from 2020 (N = 995) and community-level data from 2019 and 2020 from databases (N = 41). The predominant effects were at the individual level, including information scanning having more common significant effects on the behavioral outcomes than information seeking. Community-level crime and poverty rates also had significant effects, and four significant cross-level interactions show how community-level risk factors moderate the effects of information scanning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Large-pore hydrogels are better suited to meet the management needs of nutrient transportation and gas exchange between infected burn wounds and normal tissues. However, better construction strategies are required to balance the pore size and mechanical strength of hydrogels to construct a faster substance/gas interaction medium between tissues. Herein, we developed spongy large pore size hydrogel (CS-TA@Lys) with good mechanical properties using a simple ice crystal-assisted method based on chitosan (CS), incorporating tannic acid (TA) and ε-polylysine (Lys). A large-pore and mechanically robust hydrogel medium was constructed based on hydrogen bonding between CS molecules. On this basis, a pro-restorative functional platform with antioxidation and pro-vascularization was constructed using TA and Lys. In vitro experiments displayed that the CS-TA@Lys hydrogel possessed favorable mechanical properties and fast interaction performances. In addition, the CS-TA@Lys hydrogel possessed the capacity to remove intra/extracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) and possessed antimicrobial and pro-angiogenic properties. In vivo experiments displayed that the CS-TA@Lys hydrogel inhibited wound inflammation and promoted wound vascularization. In addition, the CS-TA@Lys hydrogel showed the potential for rapid hemostasis. This study provides a potential functional wound dressing with rapid interaction properties for skin wound repair. [Display omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this modern era, the essay writing techniques are required to be aligned with the sustainability in acquiring information through digital and virtual materials. In getting research results, which are innovative, creative, and critical, this research was conducted to measure the validity, stability, and consistency of essay writing structuring techniques by using the interactive multimedia graphic materials. A quasi-experimental method is used based on the quantitative research design. The sample consists of 30 secondary school students in Shah Alam, Selangor. The data were analyzed descriptively through mean and standard deviation. The data were also tested by inference using ANCOVA statistics. The results showed a significant difference, that is, F=13.3, at the level of <0.05. The implication of this research is that the knowledge of the interactive multimedia graphic material is essential to the technical structure in essay writing especially when involving the writing skills element, namely in the Learning and Facilitation (PdPc) of Malay language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examined viewers' reasoning about justice and enjoyment of crime drama in interactive movie events. Based on the integrated model of enjoyment for crime drama, we examined the role of viewers' judgment of justice for enjoyment and theoretically discussed the role of virtually present co-viewers. We conducted a lab experiment with N= 148 participants watching a full interactive movie manipulating the viewers' notion of what is just with what is presented in screen. Results confirm that viewers' enjoyment is a function of the viewers' judgment of justice and that virtually present co-viewers can serve as a justice compass. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study tested the extent to which the presence and relevance of interactive features influence toddlers' visual attention and learning from videos. Two-year-olds (N = 88) watched an animated bear hide on video and then searched for a bear sticker on a corresponding felt board. To watch the bear hide, toddlers watched without touching the screen (non-interactive condition), touched a relevant part of the screen (the bear; relevant condition), or touched an irrelevant part of the screen (a star; irrelevant condition). A subset of 60 children (68%) wore a head-mounted eye-tracker to record their eye movements while watching the bear hide. A relevant touchscreen feature did not increase toddlers' learning compared to non-interactive video, despite increasing toddlers' visual attention to target information. Conversely, the irrelevant touchscreen feature had a positive effect on learning, particularly on later search trials. The findings are discussed with respect to toddlers' mental representations of on-screen versus real-life events and implications for the design of touchscreen media for children. a. Prior State of Knowledge: Toddlers learn less from video than from real-life experiences. It is widely believed that interactive media support toddlers' learning, but research is mixed, sometimes finding neutral or even negative effects of interactivity compared to noninteractive video. b. Novel Contributions: A simple, relevant touchscreen feature increased toddlers' encoding of target information but did not improve learning. Conversely, an irrelevant touchscreen feature improved toddlers' learning, perhaps by increasing slightly the effort required to complete an otherwise simple task. c. Practical Implications: Interactive media do not always increase toddlers' learning. Simple learning tasks may not benefit from simple interactivity. Instead, media creators may be able to maximize educational value by balancing the difficulty of the lesson with the complexity of media features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Few studies have examined the impact of co-use of educational apps on child learning. Co-use may be especially important for children at higher risk of poor outcomes, including children from economically disadvantaged families and those with behavior problems; however existing studies on co-use have not utilized at-risk samples. Thus, the current study examined whether parent co-use of interactive media facilitates learning in a sample of 40 low-income 4- and 5-year old children at risk for behavior problems. Using an experimental design, this study examined whether children's performance improved on a coding app game (Coding Safari) either with or without a parent, compared to a control condition in which in which dyads played with a coloring app. Children in the parent-child condition performed significantly better on the task at posttest than children in the control condition, controlling for pretest scores, child age, child general cognitive ability, behavior problem severity, and parent education. Additionally, there was a significant linear trend, with children in the parent-child condition performing the best followed by children in the solo play and control conditions, respectively. Results provide some of the first experimental evidence that parent-child co-use of educational apps may be beneficial for children's learning. IMPACT SUMMARY a. Prior State of Knowledge: Previous studies have demonstrated that parents play an important role in supporting young children's learning from books and television. However, little direct evidence is available about the extent to which parent co-use may promote learning from educational app games. b. Novel Contributions: This study was the first to provide experimental evidence that co-use of educational apps with parents may be advantageous for young children's learning from apps. c. Practical Implications: The findings support current guidelines that recommend that parents co-use media, including interactive media containing features intended to provide instructional support and feedback to children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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With the rapid development of human-computer interaction technology and research in the fields of ergonomics and user experience, people have increasingly demanded robot availability and ease of use. The rapid development of modern computer computing and digital media technology has made people's contact and interaction with computers more and more frequent, and they have appeared more in people's daily lives. Therefore, the convenience and freedom of computer communication have been proposed. Based on the above background, the research content of this paper is the design of dynamic gesture interactive digital media based on image processing. This paper proposes a design scheme of an interactive touch system based on image processing and a dynamic gesture recognition method and uses the time difference method to experimentally simulate the system proposed in this paper. Image processing is the technique of analyzing images with a computer to achieve the desired results. Image processing technology generally includes three parts: image compression, enhancement and restoration, and matching, description, and recognition. The experimental results show that, for the same motion trajectory, the accuracy depends on the complexity of the gesture degree. And the system's recognition accuracy rate is always maintained above 98%, confirming that the system has the performance requirements of high recognition accuracy, fast response speed, and stable work. Finally, the system was tested for performance and function, which verified that the system meets the real-time requirements. For a particular gesture operator, the accuracy rate has a great relationship with the standard degree of its operation. If the similarity with the model is high, you can achieve a high recognition rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The traditional teaching model fails to support the modern requirements, which seek to support the diversity of each student in terms of skills, inclinations, and educational level. The adaptive educational hypermedia systems are a learning model that is both adaptive and personalized, and it is gaining popularity (AEHSs). These tools can be used by students to present, navigate, provide feedback, and assess. However, even in these systems, internal differentiation should include a wide range of practices, personalized forms of learning process organization, and high-quality education, taking into account each students' diverse educational needs and capabilities, interests, unique experiences, personal rhythms of integration of educational functions, and personal learning style. So, the learning style, the cognitive background, and the student's interest are decisive factors for the structure of a next-generation learning system. To overcome the issues of the traditional learning systems, this paper proposes an AEHS based on Variational Bayesian Petri Net (VBPNet). It is an intelligent system that can, by overcoming the significant limitations of the Petri Nets, depict any complex procedure with great precision and without considerable computing power requirements. The proposed VBPNet was used as an AEHS implementation algorithm to classify students based on their skills and real educational needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At present, educational management in colleges and universities has problems such as outdated content and backward methods of management work, fragmentation of structure, poor coordination and communication, surfaceization of work, and lack of joint efforts for all-staff education. In order to improve the effect of information education management in colleges and universities, this paper integrates the interactive multimedia teaching mode English into education management, and improves the multimedia intelligence algorithm to provide reliable technical support for subsequent information education management in colleges and universities. Moreover, with the support of intelligent algorithms, this paper constructs a college teaching information management system based on interactive multimedia teaching mode. The experimental research results show that the college teaching information management system based on the interactive multimedia teaching mode proposed in this paper has good educational data collection effects and educational information management effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper applies theory drawn from game studies to music composition in order to consider ways in which rules and goals create environments that promote critical play and manage the balance between purpose, play and task subservience. It explores correspondences between rules in games and indeterminate music, and considers how constraints create agency for players through presenting them with choices and goals that can be linked to values. Game studies research shows that games rely on interactivity, goals, competitors and conflict (Crawford 2003), and consequently effort from its players so as to attach value to its outcomes (Juul 2003). In rule-based compositions, rules are used to present choices, allowing individual players to make autonomous decisions that are focused on achieving a specified goal. Some rule-based compositions, however, specify processes and actions that have no explicit purpose. A process is initiated, perhaps with an end condition, but there is no specified purpose, other than undertaking the tasks. Game studies research suggests ways in which games might create approaches for harnessing specific motivations of players in such contexts. Tasks in persuasive games (Bogost 2010) are designed to embody real-world challenges, while Flanagan and Nissenbaum (2014) propose an approach to game design that communicates embedded values. Such approaches translate to rule-based music, presenting models for linking tasks to purpose and play, and with it relationships with the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this research was to find out the effect of implementing animated video media on student learning outcomes in Solar System science subjects and to decide the improvement in the sixth-grade student learning achievement at Padurenan Jaya elementary school. The research design used is a quantitative technique using a quasi-experimental method in a Non-Equivalent Control Group Design. The subjects of this study were the sixth-grade students at Padurenan Jaya elementary school, totaling 52 students. The sample was established by purposive sampling, namely, 28 students as the experimental group and 26 students as the control group. Techniques of data collection in this study used multiple-choice tests in pre-test and post-test. The t-test was utilized to measure differences in student learning result. Based on the study results, the average score for the pre-test control class was 46.54, and the average post-test was 64.04; while in the experimental class, the average value of the pre-test was 48.39, and the average value of the post-test was 74.82. The increase in learning outcomes for the control class was 17.50, and the experimental class was 26.43. Analysis using all results post-test and tested by t-test with the value of t count > t table (4.775 > 2.021), displaying that Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. From these determination, it can be stated that student learning consequence using animated video media are greater than the results. Student learning using conventional methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Learning media is a part of the important components in the procedures of implementing learning, especially during the current pandemic. But there are still few teachers who use media in the learning process, causing student learning outcomes to decline. Interactive media, which can attract students' attention by combining systems ranging from text, images, videos, and audio/sound, can provide new experiences for students in learning. This study aims to determine learning outcomes of the students after applying android-based interactive learning media in social science subjects. The population group consisted of 70 students from several Cluster 2, Cipinang Muara Village. Then samples were taken using the Slovin formula to get 60 samples of fourth-grade students. The data analysis performed in this investigation was a Boolean analysis utilizing a t-test. The collected data were analyzed through a t-test. The results showed that android-based interactive media positively affected student learning outcomes. Students experienced a significant increase in learning outcomes by using this media. In addition, students experienced more fascinated and untroubled to understand the material by using this application. The results showed that android-based interactive media positively affected student academic achievements. Students experienced a significant increase in learning outcomes by using this media. In addition, students perceived more curious and simpler to understand the material by using this application. The results showed that androidbased interactive media positively affected student learning outcomes. Students experienced a significant increase in learning outcomes by using this media. In addition, students undergo more attentive and uncomplicated to understand the content by using this application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To assess the patterns of social media uses and their impact on the learning of male medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted from March to May 2020 at the College of Medicine, University of Bisha (UBCOM) in Saudi Arabia. A validated questionnaire was used to collect data from the students at first year, pre-clerkship and clerkship levels about the types, patterns and benefits of social media usage in their learning. A five-Likert scale was used to measure the students' responses. Descriptive statistics and ANOVA tests were used for data analysis. Of the 203 students enrolled, 89.2% (n=181) were responded. Most students commonly used Twitter (75.1%), followed by YouTube (52.5%) and Facebook (24.3%). The highest usage of Twitter was found among clerkship students (85.1%) compared to first-year (76.2%) and pre-clerkship students (69.6%), with no significant differences (p = 0.133). About 38.7% of students spent over 10 hours per week on social media and pre-clerkship students being the highest group (43.5%). Most students (67.9%) showed that social media enhance learning activities, 65.2% are interested in using social media in their learning and 64.1% suggested that their inappropriate use consumes time. We concluded social media become interactive tools of learning in medical schools during the urgent situation such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Such findings highlighted the benefits of considering social media inclusion when designing medical curricula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines an archive of recent films, fiction, and interactive media that use personified representations of surveillance to depict and critique real-world surveillance practices. It shows how these works, like George Orwell's 1984 (1949), use personification to depict secretive, complex surveillance networks and convey the supposed meaning of those networks to surveilled subjects: someone is watching you. While such representations of surveillance fail to account for the automated, algorithmic nature of modern surveillance practices and technologies, they dominate the perception of surveillance in the popular imaginary. Such representations contribute to a myth of digital surveillance as active and individualized, a Big Brother vision of surveillance that ignores or erases how automated surveillance and algorithmic evaluation of human beings can reinforce and exacerbate structural inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Clubhouse is an invitation only social media app where users communicate in real-time audio chat rooms that accommodate up to five thousand users per room. It became popular among Egyptians during the COVID-19 pandemic who actively participated in various discussions – including politics. This exploratory study asks whether the app performed functions that might form the basis for an emerging public sphere in Egypt, filling a gap in society where freedom of expression via traditional media is under state control, through satisfying a need for connectivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study first introduces Clubhouse and its uses in Egypt within the context of that nation's politics during 2021, then moves on to conceptualizing the public sphere within the context of the current hypermedia age, identifying the conditions which might allow Clubhouse to cut through in ways other platforms have failed in a range of contexts. The study argues that Clubhouse facilitated the creation of what may appear as a proto-public sphere by facilitating connections between a large number of Egyptian citizens with different political affiliations, and by offering an insight into what issues circulate within Egyptian society. Yet, the app presented structural barriers which limited participation beyond access to technology, and there were limited means for the discussions to have a positive impact on society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Culture is a powerful spiritual force rooted in the hearts of the Chinese people and guides the direction of the Chinese people. Sight singing and ear training are playing an increasingly important role as an important means of music teaching. The article is aimed at studying the latest application progress of music reading skills in audiovisual ear training in the new media environment. This paper proposes the interactive application of music reading skills that integrate new media to realize the interactive communication between man and machine. The experimental results of this paper show that new media can make greater use of the advantages of music reading skills, enhance students' musical sensitivity by 20%, and realize musical interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper approaches the technology of artificial intelligence (hereinafter AI) as a design-based praxis emerging from the domain of arts and humanities. The problematic of AI as a design instead of for a design has been approached through the stages of ephemeral interactive and immersive media installations and their permanent physicalizations as in media museums. Through some forty-eight interactive and immersive media installations that exemplify the physicalization of immaterial humanistic characteristics of senses, experiences, emotions and memories, and by studying their permanent physicalized hybridizations as in media museums, this paper attempts to build a pioneering case that AI can also be exploited as a design instead of its traditional image of for a design. The inclusion of Japanese perspectives in this case acts as a reminder of particular design traits resulting in the enrichment of this study instead of as being a discriminative indicator. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to develop thematic teaching materials based on interactive multimedia to improve students' listening skills. This study used the research and development model of Borg and Gall (1983). The multimedia-based thematic teaching materials developed were validated by linguists, media experts and graphic experts. The stages of testing teaching materials consist of small group trials and field trials. The validation of material experts was 87.5%; the results of the validation of linguists were 82.5%; the results of the validation of graphic experts were 87.5%. Based on data and student response questionnaires, learning multimedia-based teaching materials can attract students' interest. Student learning outcomes show a positive status. Thus, the product that can be developed is useful in the learning of fourth-grade elementary school students.

Interactive multimedia is an electronic system containing images, animation, and an interaction between the media and students. It considered that dyslexic student needs multisensory methods and media in the learning process as well. This study aims designing interactive multimedia development for early reading of dyslexic student and finding out its effectiveness. The method used is William W. Lee and Diana L. Owens’ (2004) development model. The procedures are: (1) Assessment / Analysis, (2) Design, (3) Development, (4) Implementation and (5) Evaluation. The results of feasibility and effectiveness trials conducted by media experts scored 96% means "very feasible". In addition, the assessment of the material experts also obtained 91.3% and the practitioner gave 87%, both of them were in the “very decent” category. The results of the assessment on subject’s early reading ability at baseline conditions (A1) ranging from 45% to 50%. Meanwhile, a significant increase was shown during the intervention condition (B), namely the subject’s ability of early reading increased from 65% to 75%. In addition, to determine the effectiveness of the interactive multimedia (intervention) in subject’s reading ability, it was added the baseline conditions (A2) ranged from 80% to 90%. Based on the analysis, it showed that interactive multimedia of early reading for dyslexic is feasible and effective to be used in the learning process of early reading for dyslexic students.

Visual-spatial is needed to improve submicroscopic understanding, such as polar and nonpolar covalent bonding materials. Not many 3D interactive multimedia have been developed with visual-spatial orientation. This research aims to produce 3D interactive multimedia with spatial-visual orientation on polar and nonpolar covalent bond materials suitable for use. The research design uses an R&D (Research and Development) research model developed but restricted to a limited trial step. The eligibility criteria include validity (content and construct) and practicality. The validity criteria are based on the results of the validity assessment data from three validators. Practicality criteria are based on the assessment given by three chemistry teachers shortly after the visual-spatial-oriented 3D interactive multimedia trial. Overall data were analyzed descriptive- quantitatively. The results of the study concluded that the developed 3D interactive multimedia meets the eligibility requirements. Each validation indicator in 3D interactive multimedia receives an assessment from the validator with mode (Mo) at least 4 in the score range 1-5 and the percentage of agreement (R) between validators above 75%. The 3D interactive multimedia meets practicality requirements because each indicator receives an assessment from the user students with (Mo) at least 4 in the score range 1-5. The percentage of agreement (R) between user students is above 75%.

In online learning, an attitude of responsibility is needed in the learning process. Today, the attitude of responsibility in students is reduced. This study aims to look at the student's responsible attitude towards online learning in the interactive multimedia development course. This research is descriptive, namely research to describe the symptoms, phenomena, or facts studied by describing the independent variables, without intending to connect or compare. Data collection techniques using a Google Form questionnaire. The population in this study were students who were taking Interactive Multimedia courses totaling 167 respondents. The data obtained were analyzed using a descriptive percentage technique. The results of this study indicate that a very good attitude of responsibility in online interactive multimedia learning is related to aspects of punctuality in collecting assignments and knowing the lecture schedule, aspects of revising work and doing all assignments independently, aspects of using original ideas, and do not do plagiarism works. While the attitude of responsibility that is still lacking in online interactive multimedia learning is related to aspects of participation in online class forum discussions and providing suggestions or input on the work of colleagues, aspects of using illustrations/drawings themselves. So that we get the results that there are aspects of the attitude of responsibility related to social responsibility that is still lacking, while individual responsibility is quite good.

Learners are more active and interactive in social media as they freely express themselves and share their thoughts and feeling which generates much useful information about their characteristics. However, the same learners are not usually interactive in MOOCs as much as they do in social media. Therefore, focusing on the Learner's social profile is a key component towards a successful and enriched experience of learning. Especially that MOOCs offer the possibility to sign up using social media accounts. Thereby, profile modelling is an essential step to capture the knowledge about the learners. In this paper, we aim to explore the information generated by the learner's participation in social media and combine it with his characteristics in MOOCs. Our approach is based on implementing an ontological learner profile that combines other ontologies (IMS-LIP standard, FOAF, and SIOC ontology) as well as some of the major concepts that describe a user in social media. The result of our solution is a social profile ontology (SPOnt) that describes the main concepts of a learner in each environment (MOOCs and social media). We rely on ontology mapping and merging techniques to maintain the semantic links between the different concepts of the two implemented ontologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Overview: Video games are unparalleled as an interactive medium and can serve as potential educational tools through intelligent game design and the players' immersion in the game world (e.g., Mayo 2009; Rassalle 2021; Rubio-Campillo 2020; Winter 2021). At the same time, video games, like any media, might also misinform (e.g., Aron 2020; Dennis 2019; Emery and Reinhard 2016). In this review, I present my impressions of the game Ancestors: A Humankind Odyssey (Panache Digital Games 2019), specifically regarding its portrayal of paleoanthropological themes. In preparing this review, I played the game in its entirety and subsequently interviewed the developers in order to clarify their intentions when designing the game (Patrice Désilets and Marc-André De Blois, personal communication 2021). Using the medium of video games, is it possible to make a "perfectly" accurate simulation of human evolution? Perhaps, but that may not matter anyway. In my view, video games, as exemplified by Ancestors, have great potential for exploring the basic components of human evolution and to reach and inspire a wider public that might otherwise learn very little about the subject matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rapid development of science and technology in the 21st Century demands students (both school and university) to hold sufficient skills, including critical thinking and problem solving, to compete globally. Educational systems are responsible for promoting the skills through the teaching and learning experiences, including teaching material and learning media applied in the class. This paper highlights the development of mobile apps-based digital comic media in social learning that can be integrated into personalized online learning. The steps to develop the media was applied the Gay's procedure. The digital comic media present an interactive science knowledge platform in the form of digital comic media enriched with Augmented reality technology. The media has been tested to 20 students during the emerging of the Covid-19 pandemic and showing good acceptance. This implies that digital comic media is of value to be used and applied in online learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present research promotes a debate between the criminological-cultural explanation about violence and its approach in the game The Last of Us - part II, encompassing its presentation during history and its effects in the empirical field. The research problem focuses on: how is the topic of violence treated in the game The Last of Us - part II, and what are its consequences? The main objective is to analyze the discussions, beyond the usual, about violence through an interactive media, with multiple effects (whether in the work itself, in the players or even in the people involved outside the digital field). Therefore, initially the deductive logic, the monographic procedure method, and the indirect documentation research technique are adopted as the approach method. Finally, it is concluded that, although it is a piece of the cultural industry, the work under analysis subverts the public's expectations regarding violence, introducing important aspects for social reflection, having resulted in odious reactions that are linked to the social context contemporary and discriminatory processes that still exist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A comprehensive understanding of children's motivation to read e-books requires a multifaceted and contextualized conceptualization of children's agency. In this study, agency was operationalized as a set of behaviour indicators of children's control (behavioural agency), adults' perceptions of reader identities afforded by the content and format of books (social agency), and specific multimedia and interactive features that afford personalisation (agentic design). In a comparative qualitative case study, seven preschool children and their mothers were observed reading four story-based interactive e-books (story-apps). Multimethod analysis that combined design evaluation with observational and interview data revealed behavioural agency was demonstrated in the children's frequent, prolonged, and repetitive physical engagement with the story-apps. Social agency became foregrounded in relation to constitutive reader identities. Agentic design was related to children's sense of autonomy. The findings have implications for how we theorize, operationalize, and apply the concept of agency in children's e-books and reading for pleasure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]