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Usability Design Strategies for Children: Developing Children's Learning and Knowledge in Decreasing Their Dental Anxiety
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Yahaya, Wan Ahmad Jaafar Wan; Salam, Sobihatun Nur Abdul – Online Submission, 2010
This paper presents an example of how usability design strategies for children can be designed into educational material using CD-ROM based multimedia application for assisting parents and teachers to develop children's learning and knowledge in decreasing as well as motivate children aged 7-9 years old to reduce their anxious feelings towards…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary School Students, Usability, Design
Interactive Stories and Exercises with Dynamic Feedback for Improving Reading Comprehension Skills in Deaf Children
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Mich, Ornella; Pianta, Emanuele; Mana, Nadia – Computers & Education, 2013
Deaf children have significant difficulties in comprehending written text. This is mainly due to the hearing loss that prevents them from being exposed to oral language when they were an infant. However, it is also due to the type of educational intervention they are faced with, which accustoms them to decoding single words and isolated sentences,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Usability, Deafness, Story Telling
An Investigation on the Role of Multimodal Metaphors in e-Feedback Interfaces
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Rigas, Dimitrios; Alharbi, Abdulrhman – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the usability (effectiveness, efficiency and user satisfaction) of e-feedback interfaces. The experiment compares a traditional visual approach with a multimodal approach in order to determine the impact of multimodal metaphors upon the user's understanding, reasoning and engagement with the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), User Satisfaction (Information), Learner Engagement, Writing Exercises
Image Manipulation and User-Supplied Index Terms
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Schultz, Leah – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study investigates the relationships between the use of a zoom tool, the terms they supply to describe the image, and the type of image being viewed. Participants were assigned to two groups, one with access to the tool and one without, and were asked to supply terms to describe forty images, divided into four categories: landscape, portrait,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Visual Aids
Visuals, Path Control, and Knowledge Gain: Variables that Affect Students' Approval and Enjoyment of a Multimedia Text as a Learning Tool
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George-Palilonis, Jennifer; Filak, Vincent – International Journal on E-Learning, 2010
As graphically driven, animated, interactive applications offer educators new opportunities for shaping course content, new avenues for research arise as well. Along with these developments comes a need to study the effectiveness of the individual tools at our disposal as well as various methods for integrating those tools in a classroom setting.…
Descriptors: Course Content, Learner Engagement, Science Instruction, Electronic Learning
Multipoint Multimedia Conferencing System with Group Awareness Support and Remote Management
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Osawa, Noritaka; Asai, Kikuo – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2008
A multipoint, multimedia conferencing system called FocusShare is described that uses IPv6/IPv4 multicasting for real-time collaboration, enabling video, audio, and group awareness information to be shared. Multiple telepointers provide group awareness information and make it easy to share attention and intention. In addition to pointing with the…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Videoconferencing, Teleconferencing, Computer Mediated Communication