Chapter 11Writing and Interactive Design

ifig0001 Key Terms

  • artificial intelligence
  • assets
  • authoring tool
  • branching
  • cross-platform
  • design document
  • flowchart
  • functionality
  • hierarchical
  • HTML
  • hub with satellites
  • hypertext
  • interactive design
  • linear
  • meta-writing
  • multipoint-to-multipoint communication
  • navigation
  • nodes
  • nonlinear
  • parallel paths
  • random access
  • scripting language
  • sticky
  • storyboard
  • virtual space
  • visual metaphor
  • wheel

Defining Interactive

First, we need to define more closely what the term interactive means. Although interactive media were enabled by the convergence of computer, video, and ...

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