Multimedia for Avoiding Violence-Related Injury to Youth

During Phase l of the project, we will design a multimedia instructional tool aimed at helping middstudents develop the cognitive strategies and social competence needed to avoid injury related to vidocument will reflect the input of a team of instructional technologists and practitioners in injuryMacro will conduct a feasibility study of the design to determine (a) the likelihood that the producstudents' attitudes and behaviors, (b) the usability of the product in existing violence prevention,peer mediation programs, and (c) its marketability through commercial publishers. The multimedia prothe CD-ROM technology, which supports full motion, animated graphics, hypertext, and high quality soThis project addresses NICHD's call for "the development of technologies to reduce the likelihood ofchildren or adolescents.