Besides the relatively smaller number of PC's in Europe, another factor helping interactive TV there is that Europeans have had some level of interactivity on their televisions for years.
"Media companies and content owners have not been that aggressive about two things: offering lots of clips on their sites and offering interactivity, like the ability to include a clip in a blog or email it to a friend," said Will Richmond, president of Broadband Directions, a market intelligence firm that focuses on Internet video.
Like the Edwards-Gaherty family, would-be dog owners usually list interactivity high on their list of desired pet qualities, which is why many choose birds as a substitute.
One would be for web publishers, who want to offer more interactivity between users on their website.
The Striiv is a lot bigger and designed to actually sit on your keyring, and the Striiv offers more in the way of on-screen interactivity whereas Fitbit shines online.
On the one hand, interactivity reduces the demands on the agent's working memory resources, but on the other, the system's overall working memory resources are augmented.
Beam hopes that their emphasis on social interactivity can make them the go-to spot for gamers looking to get social on the interwebs.
Interactivity on the forum was very low: although 68 participants viewed some posts that were started by the moderator, only six participants started a post by writing on their personal experience with their disability assessment and only one participant started a post in the question asking forum.
In one, the focus is on interactivity, and that feels to me like people who are trying to invent the future.
But despite the pronounced emphasis on interactivity, Noble argues interaction is merely a means to achieve a larger end, not the goal of the exhibition itself: "If my work stopped with interaction as its primary message, then I would feel concerned that I am only making toys for pleasurable entertainment," Noble explains.
