The effect of animated character in multimedia presentation: Attention and comprehension

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1350-1352

  Hongpaisanwiwat, Cholyeun ^a   Lewis, Michael ^b  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Animated character; Attentional; Extroversion Introversion; Multimedia presentation

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

ANIMATED CHARACTER; EXTROVERSION; INTROVERSION; MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION;

ANIMATION;

EID: 0242576321     PISSN: 08843627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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