Creative iMedia
R097 – Interactive digital media – What are IDMPs?
There's a lot of multimedia used on computers and apps these days. Not all of it is really interactive.
Examples of IDMPs
What multimedia do these examples include? How interactive are they?
- A journey down the Martuwarra river – from The Guardian newspaper
- How to make a T Rex at home – from the Natural History Museum in London
- The Women of Bletchley Park
I'm not sure that those examples are properly interactive. They don't all allow multiple routes through and for the user to make proper choices.
They're mainly linear.
The interactive element is the hardest to pin down. The user really needs to be able to properly control which route to take rather than be sent down a single route. This means that a product is non-linear.
Better examples
Now take a look at some of these examples.
- Manchester Museum's online exhibitions
- National Museum of Computing – a 3D tour
- Virtual tour of part of the University of California at Riverside
- Innsbruck tourist information – a city in Austria
Those are probably better in terms of interactive content, although they aren't all perfect by any means. The computing museum is probably the best example. I like the way you can explore and find out more about exhibits.
Here's a useful Google search to start looking for other examples.