Research Project Feedback

Hello,

Today I got feedback from my lecturer David Downes about my research. I showed him my most recent research and my development of ideas. He think's that I'm heading in the right direction but I need to define more specifically, in what way does interactive help a narrative.

• Does it help the audience engage with the narrative?
• Does it make it more enjoyable experience?
• Does it help there intellectual understanding- does it help the audience relay historical events better?

For instance, if I was going to create a artefact to test how interactivity helps intellectual understanding, I could create a artefact based around he narrative: Henry 8th and his wives. I would create two prototypes. One would be interactive, the other would be linear. They aim to test how interactivity can help people remember historical events.

I may find that the interactivity could work better because the audience can make decisions and read the bit that interests them the most. This may mean the information becomes more memorable to them. However, they might miss bits of information, e.g. one of the wives whereas in the linear they wouldn't because you have to read it in order.

Perhaps the interactive artefact could help retain knowledge better because you can incorporate an objective into the 'game' before progressing to the next step such as having to click somewhere specific. Is active learning more effective than passive?

I'm going to do some reading around some sources to get some ideas.