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COM550 Producing Interactive Media

Instructor: William Moner


Course Description

This course covers the fundamental practices associated with interactive media production, including interface design, applied multimedia and usability refinement. In the effort to provide users with optimized opportunities for choice and control, students will apply design guidelines such as Shneiderman’s eight Golden Rules and production/design trends emerging in various industries. Students will author interactive experiences and explore historical origins as well as today’s best practices.

Goal of the Course

Understand fundamental interactive media development concepts using common industry development tools in order to reinforce technique that may be applied beyond the scope of this course.

Emerge with enhanced technical skills and theoretically-informed insights into interactivity and its increasingly significant role in a variety of communications contexts.

Web Space

You have been allotted web space on an Elon server. Additionally, you can use your Github account as a web server locale for a small fee (paid to Github). Furthermore, you may use your own web hosting service such as Bluehost or similar to work with production files. Examine your options for web hosting at and beyond Elon.