Aligning affordances of graphics with learning task requirements

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 452-459

  Lowe, Richard ^a   Schnotz, Wolfgang ^b   Rasch, Thorsten ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KANGAROO; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 79956189642     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1712     Document Type: Article

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