Abstract
This scientific article covers the study of the interactive multimedia elements that compound a hypermedia system taking as reference two videogames Antigrav (EyeToy based from Sony) & Sims2 (ElectronicArts). It describes in detailed categories the interface expressive elements, the interactive narrative forms, the emotions and the values that integrate a hypermedia communication system. Finally, it compiles and describes the hypermedia expressions that where the most interacted and efficient for the communicative immersion based on the research observation of twenty young-adults from different cultural backgrounds. This research serves as a referential model for the production and development of efficient hypermedia communicative edutainment systems: videogames, webs, virtual realities.
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