A picture is worth a thousand connections: The facilitative effects of diagrams on mental model development and task performance

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 185-199

  Fiore, Stephen M ^a   Cuevas, Haydee M ^a   Oser, Randall L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Card sorts; Diagrams; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge structures; Mental models

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURE;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037350850     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0747-5632(02)00054-7     Document Type: Article

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