Cognitive Productivity

Description

Understanding Multimedia Documents deals with issues of great interest to an expanding community of multimedia designers and professional users, such as teachers and information workers. Multimedia documents are increasingly used to communicate knowledge in the mass media and educational contexts. In order to improve their practice, designers, teachers, and other professionals interested in the use of multimedia documents must be aware of how multimedia documents impact students' perception, comprehension and use of information. Yet knowledge of multimedia quality and its optimal conditions of.;Understanding Multimedia Documents: An Introduction; Why Multimedia Learning is not Always Helpful; Text and Picture Integration in Comprehending and Memorizing Spatial Descriptions; Display of Key Pictures from Animation: Effects on Learning; Levels of Verbal Redundancy, Note-Taking and Multimedia Learning; Learning from a Multimedia Explanation: A Comparison of Static Pictures and Animation; Search and Comprehension Processes in Learning from Text; Searching User-Controllable Animations During Learning; Studying Eye Movements in Multimedia Learning. Understanding Multimedia Documents: An Introduction Why Multimedia Learning is not Always Helpful Text and Picture Integration in Comprehending and Memorizing Spatial Descriptions Display of Key Pictures from Animation: Effects on Learning Levels of Verbal Redundancy, Note-Taking and Multimedia Learning Learning from a Multimedia Explanation: A Comparison of Static Pictures and Animation Search and Comprehension Processes in Learning from Text Searching User-Controllable Animations During Learning Studying Eye Movements in Multimedia Learning.