"Interactive Multimedia: Multimedia Production and Digital Storytelling" ed. by Dragan Cvetković

The authors of the book deal with different topics within these disciplines, such as the importance of cloud storage, development of play tools for children, use of gaming on multimedia devices designed for the elderly, development of a reading, writing, and spelling program based on Luria's theories, as well as development of mobile applications called BloodHero dedicated to the increase in blood donors, etc.

Multimedia is the common name for media that combine more than one type of individual medium to create a single unit. Interactive media are the means of communication in which the outputs depend on the inputs made by the user. This book contains 11 chapters that are divided into two sections: Interactive Multimedia and Education and Interactive Multimedia and Medicine.


Contents
1.Introductory Chapter: Multimedia and Interaction
2.Multimedia: Different Processes
3.Interactive Design vs. Design for Interaction: Developing Interactive Play Tools that Promote Interactions between Children
4.Interactive Multimedia Touch Screen Tablets and Gaming as a Vehicle That Fosters Learning Digital Skills
5.Transactional Distance Theory: A Critical View of the Theoretical and Pedagogical Underpinnings of E-Learning
6.Designing a Participatory and Interactive Opera
7.The Graphical Access Challenge for People with Visual Impairments: Positions and Pathways Forward
8.Training Reading, Writing and Spelling Fluency: Centre-Periphery Dissemination through Interactive Multimedia
9.Digital Pathology: The Time Is Now to Bridge the Gap between Medicine and Technological Singularity
10.Calmness in Virtual Environments Enhance User’s Spatial Presence Experience
11.BloodHero: The Power of Gamification in Social Habit