Interactive media and the user experience

This lesson comprises eight (8) master classes focusing on:

• Interactive media
• User experience (UX)
• Online training and learning
• Creative processes
• Human connections
• Digital identities
• Web-based interactive media
• Data journalism

Content:

Ubiquity of interactive media

• Investigate how interactive media and the user experience (UX) are used to communicate information to an audience
• Investigate social, ethical and legal issues when developing and implementing interactive media systems
• Research the evolution of interactive media, including:
  • prevalence of blogs, online video and digital radio
  • privacy issues and the use of intellectual property, including Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP)
• Describe the contribution of interactive media systems to a range of enterprises, including:
  • how simulation, gamification and augmented reality (AR) support online training and learning
  • how streaming services, gaming and virtual reality (VR) improve access to entertainment
  • how specialist apps support delivery tracking, advertising and communication
• Evaluate the performance requirements of hardware for specific interactive media projects
• Explain how interactive media systems can support creative processes, including:
  • sandbox gaming
  • social media
  • digital creative commons
• Examine how human behaviour may be influenced by interactive media, including opportunities for people with disability to explore and participate in their environment
• Investigate how digital marketing techniques influence consumer behaviour, including:
  • guided choice (nudging)
  • default settings, including cookies
  • autofill
  • pop-ups promoting online shopping
• Evaluate social media applications that encourage human connections, including:
  • crowdsourcing through a social media app
  • learning via massive online open courses (MOOCs)
  • gaming platforms that encourage massive multiplayer online games (MMOGs)
• Explore how interactive media platforms support the creation of digital identities, including:
  • personal e-profiles
  • identifier versus identity
  • profiling and auto-profiling
  • privacy settings

Capture, store and integrate data

• Select and use appropriate file formats for a defined purpose
• Use software to develop elements of interactive media in a project
• Use hardware and software to digitise assets for use in interactive media systems, including lossy and lossless data compression
• Explain how the user interface (UI) impacts on the user experience (UX)
• Apply design tools and techniques to develop an engaging UI

Create interactive media systems

• Apply design thinking to develop a front-end, web-based interactive media system incorporating UX and UI principles
• Develop and publish an interactive work of data journalism
• Select an appropriate project management approach to develop an interactive media-based solution
• Apply features of user interaction and UX within web-based systems, including:
  • communication processes via social media
  • search, sort and selection processes via online retail services
  • online gaming platforms