How can such cross-media endeavours truly be interactive when to date they've been adjuncts rather than feedback loops?
The icons are interactive: when a physician places the mouse over an icon, the corresponding part of the text (possibly one or several sentences or paragraphs) is highlighted with a yellow background.
Many of Blake's portraits are interactive when scanned; in Andy Warhol's portrait, which is made up of bar codes from his famed Campbell Soup works, a video projector dumps virtual soup into a bowl.
It was immersive before "immersion" became an entertainment-industry buzzword, it was "interactive" back when interactivity meant writing reasonable letters to the editor about characters named Tigra and Man-Thing and it linked like-minded thinkers in an open-ended virtual fantasy world before there was a World of Warcraft or even a Web to play it on.
"Not cheap," Mr. Collazo said, "but you can make the get-together more interactive when the meeting is small.
The processes in gene expression may be "interactive" because transcription occurs only when regulatory factors are readily available from previous transcription and translation processes (Latchman 2010).
But it's interactive, because when people come into the space and stand in front of a sky video, they will also be projected onto the ceiling.
In addition to this, each link is interactive, and when clicked on, displays information such as the proportion of genes inherited along this link, and their names.
On ABC.com, nearly one in four users participate when the ads are interactive, the network said.
"For me, the best parts of being a law professor are interactive -- they happen when students and faculty members get together to think and talk about the law and legal systems," she said.
