The effects of signals on learning from text and diagrams: How looking at diagrams earlier and more frequently improves understanding

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

Volumn 6170 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 264-270

  Scheiter, Katharina ^a   Eitel, Alexander ^a  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

eye tracking; learning; multimedia; signaling

Indexed keywords

COLOR CODING; EYE-TRACKING; LEARNING; LEARNING OUTCOME; MEDIATION ANALYSIS; MULTIMEDIA; VISUAL ATTENTION; EYE-TRACKING STUDIES; LEARNING FROM TEXTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SIGNALING;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 77955837662     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14600-8_26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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