The meeting of gestalt and cognitive load theories in instructional screen design

ICEIS 2004 - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 53-62

  Chang, Dempsey ^a   Tuovinen, Juhani E ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive Load theory; Gestalt theory; Interface design; Multimedia instructional screen design

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER VISION; FLUORESCENT SCREENS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; USER INTERFACES;

COGNITIVE LOAD THEORY (CLT); GESTALT THEORY; INTERFACE DESIGNS; MULTIMEDIA INSTRUCTIONAL SCREEN DESIGNS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 8444232484     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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