Resumen de Hypermedia:: Interactive Exploration of a Medieval Town
With the aim of developing an interface capable of supporting the acquisition of historical knowledge through interactive involvement, this paper shows an application of HyperCard concerning the exploration of a medieval town. The student, who is taken to fourteenth‐century Florence, can move freely through the city, go into the houses and start conversations between the characters; furthermore the student can also access short descriptive information or historical and historiographic files. The possibility of this visual‐situational involvement — offered by multi‐media experiences — supporting the acquisition of more abstract notions is still to be evaluated.
