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Clear focus on multimedia documents considered from a cognitive perspective
Includes new ideas about how readers deal with multimedia information
Presents new empirical findings about what works and what does not work in the design and use of multimedia documents
Offers both a scientific and a historical perspective on the design and use of documents
Includes new examples of documents illustrating positive and negative design options
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Understanding Multimedia Documents: An Introduction
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Memory Processes in Multimedia Comprehension
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Contextual Strategies in Document-Based Learning
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Back Matter
About this book
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 use is still rather fragmented. While there have been significant advances in the theoretical and empirical analysis of individual processes of document comprehension, the field is still evolving rapidly. New and sophisticated investigation techniques have been designed in the past few years, e.g., eye tracking, automated data collection, that provide analytical data on the complex mental processes involved. The studies presented in this book reflect those advances. They cover a wide range of situations, tasks and domains where multimedia documents may be used and provide in-depth information about the cognitive processes involved in the comprehension and use of such documents.
Understanding Multimedia Documents is of interest to researchers and professionals in a variety of fields, including education and multimedia information systems.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Poitiers, France
Jean-François Rouet
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Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Richard Lowe
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University of Landau, Germany
Wolfgang Schnotz
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Multimedia Documents
Editors: Jean-François Rouet, Richard Lowe, Wolfgang Schnotz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73337-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-73336-4Published: 28 July 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4459-7Published: 04 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-73337-1Published: 17 July 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 290
Topics: Educational Technology, Learning & Instruction, Multimedia Information Systems