Cueing animations: Dynamic signaling aids information extraction and comprehension

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 25, Issue , 2013, Pages 71-84

  Boucheix, Jean Michel ^a   Lowe, Richard K ^b   Putri, Dian K ^a,c   Groff, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GUNADARMA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Animation processing model; Cue obedience; Event cueing; Eye tracking; Time locked data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872460772     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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