Interactive elements in digital publicationUnit 5 Task 2

By Turcu Matei

Definition of interactive features

Interactive features are something that you can access with a electronic device like a smartphone , tablet or computer .You can control the article , i.e zooming in/out , accessing links and listening to audio .Interactive features mean that you can press a button and the computer has to respond back with the command or an instruction.

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Interactive featuresAudio Audio is a sound that is transmitted or

reproduced .You can access audio by clicking on links from the pages , and it can take you to YouTube or if the article has the option , a computer voice can read the article for you .You can listen to audio if you plug in headphones or you can listen it without headphones but it’s really annoying for the people near you .Sometimes when you are tired after work and you want to read the e-newspaper ,audio can be very useful , because you can lay on the bad , put your headphones on and a computer voice is reading the article for you , making your life easier .

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Pause the audio

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Time of the audio

Advantages of Audio in digital publication

Disadvantages of Audio in digital publication

♠If you are tired after work audio is very useful if you want to lay in your bed and you are to tired to read the article .♠Audio can help the blind people to listen the news article .♠Some people get a better understanding with audio than reading .

♣If someone in a public transport doesn’t have headphones and is listening to audio is very annoying .♣You need internet connection to listen to audio from newspapers.♣The computing voice is annoying and it can misspell the accent.♣It needs some time to load .

Interactive featuresVideo Video is a recording of moving images made

digitally or on videotape .In digital texts videos are used to support the articles , and sometimes videos offer more details and explanation that the digital article .Usually videos are found on YouTube , and you can access videos from a smartphone , tablet or computer .

If you are subscribed, you can click on this image and see how to made push-ups

You can see how to lift medicine balls

You can see how to work with battle ropes and how they help you

Advantages of Video in digital publication

Disadvantages of Video in digital publication

♠It can be great if you missed the news on the TV and you want to see the article.♠Video news have more informations and details than the digital publications.

♣You need internet connection to watch videos and it consumes a lot of network data.♣It takes a lot of time to load.♣You need headphones to listen to the digital publications.

Interactive features Graphics Graphics are visual images produced by computer processing ,the use of computers

linked to display screens to generate and manipulate visual images .On digital publications graphics are used to impress the audience .

Advantages of Graphics in digital publications

♠Graphics make the page to have a identity because it uses more colours and different type of fonds and without them the digital publications would be boring. ♠Graphics are made to impress the audience and if the graphics are made very good , the article may be more popular.

Disadvantages of Graphics in digital publications

♠Some graphics can have too many different colours and it can make you very confused.♠Sometimes graphics don’t have any relevance with the article .♠If there are too many graphics it may bore the audience.

Interactive featuresLinks A link is a code or instruction which connects one part of a program or a element in a

list to another .In digital publications ,links are used to navigate easier to a article that you want to read , or to access something without searching it on google .You just have to press on the link and it sends a command to the computer and it responds back with the command or instruction .

Links

Advantages of Links in digital publications

Disadvantages of Links in digital publications

♠You can access the article that you want to read just pressing on a link without searching .♠It’s a easy way to search what you need.♠If you don’t have time to read what you want you can copy the link and save it on the pc and you can return back to it.♠You can share with your friends what you found out on internet.

♣It takes a lot of time to load if you are on mobile data.♣Sometimes if you click a wrong link you can get viruses or you can access pages with scary things.

Interactive featuresPage navigation Page navigation means that you can to reload it if you have problems or to change

the page backwards or forward . With page navigation you have total control over you article and you got the power .

Zoom in/out

Change the page backwards or forward

Number of page

Full screen

Advantages of page navigation in digital

publications

Disadvantages of page navigation in digital

publications♠It makes your navigation on digital publications easier and the access quicker.♠You have the control over what you want to see.♠It can help people with vision problems to see better the article.

♣You have to subscribe to use all the navigation tools.♣Sometimes with navigation tools you can download something and it can harm you computer.♣Not all the digital texts have navigation tools and if you are used to it , it can make your navigation harder .

How all this elements work together.Audio, video, graphics, links and page navigation work very good together .This combination makes the navigation on a digital publication very easy , and if you don’t have much time to search for something that you want to documentation on a article it’s very easy to find it nowadays.