Animated diagrams: An investigation into the cognitive effects of using animation to illustrate dynamic processes

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

Volumn 1889, Issue , 2000, Pages 231-244

  Jones, Sara ^a   Scaife, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION;

ANIMATED DIAGRAMS; COGNITIVE EFFECTS; COGNITIVE INTERACTION; COGNITIVE PROCESSING; COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY; COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION; ENHANCE LEARNING; SPECIFIC INFORMATION;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 84942920176     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44590-0_22     Document Type: Article

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