Learning from animated diagrams: How are mental models built?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5223 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 266-281

  Lowe, Richard ^a   Boucheix, Jean Michel ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Animated diagrams; Complex dynamic content; Mental model construction; Perceptual and cognitive processing; Theoretical framework

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

ANIMATED DIAGRAMS; COMPLEX DYNAMIC CONTENT; MENTAL MODEL CONSTRUCTION; PERCEPTUAL AND COGNITIVE PROCESSING; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 56549111903     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87730-1_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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