An eye tracking comparison of external pointing cues and internal continuous cues in learning with complex animations

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 123-135

  Boucheix, Jean Michel ^a   Lowe, Richard K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animations; Attention guiding; Cueing; Eye tracking; Perceptibility profile

Indexed keywords

EID: 71749087531     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2009.02.015     Document Type: Article

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