Instructional efficiency of animation: Effects of interactivity through mental reconstruction of static key frames

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 783-793

  Paas, Fred ^a,b   Van Gerven, Pascal W M ^c   Wouters, Pieter ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING STYLE; MALE; MENTAL LOAD; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEACHING; VIRTUAL REALITY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 34848889576     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1349     Document Type: Article

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