EMPIRICALLY-BASED GUIDELINES FOR THE DESIGN OF INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA

While interest in interactive multimedia continues to grow, thus far its activities haze been driven more by technological capacity than research and theory. Typically, guidelines for interactive multimedia design are based not upon empirical evidence, but on the intuitive beliefs of designers. In this article, relevant research and theory are organized within an overarching framework, and their principles and implications for the design of interactive multimedia are derived.