IDI Press Release – September 25, 1998

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

IDI's Virtual Conversations® Arabic Series  
selected as NewMedia Invision Awards Finalist

September 25, 1998 — IDI's "Virtual Conversations® language programs - The Arabic Series" has been selected as a finalist in the Education/Continuing Education category of NewMedia Magazine's 1998 Invision Awards.

IDI has been designing and producing voice-activated interactive software simulations—called Virtual Conversations® programs—to promote experiential learning since 1984. Early research and development of the method was supported by the National Library of Medicine. A rigorous national field test conducted in 1987 and funded by the NIH, demonstrated the intense intellectual and emotional involvement test subjects experience when they used Virtual Conversations® programs.

IDI’s Virtual Conversations® method was awarded a patent (#5,006,987) in 1991. IDI research and development activities have been funded by grant awards from NIH and contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

For More Information Contact:

Marcia A. Zier
Interactive Drama Inc.
7900 Wisconsin Avenue Suite 200, Bethesda, MD 20814
Tel: 301.654.0676
FAX: 301.657.9174
Email: mzier@idrama.com