Color research and its application to the design of instructional materials

Pett, O Dennis; Wilson, Trudy

doi:10.1007/bf02300423

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“…Today, this information would also be of great help to a large community of Web page designers. Pett and Wilson (1996) also suggested that contrary to the previously performed researches, a study with significantly more subjects and colors should be carried out.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…In the conclusion of his paper, Lin (2003) also suggested to further investigate the visual performance with respect to chromaticity and luminance contrast. In their paper, Pett and Wilson (1996) pointed out that examining legibility and preference of colored lettering on colored backgrounds would provide useful information for designers, because such combinations are commonly used on instructional materials, video titles and video bulletin boards. Today, this information would also be of great help to a large community of Web page designers.…”

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confidence: 98%

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The impact of color combinations on the legibility of a Web page text presented on CRT displays

Humar¹,

̆ar²,

Turk³

2008

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

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Section: Article In Pressmentioning

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Section: Article In Pressmentioning

confidence: 98%

The impact of color combinations on the legibility of a Web page text presented on CRT displays

Humar¹,

̆ar²,

Turk³

2008

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

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“…For instance, colour can add reality, assist the viewer to discriminate between visual elements, focus attention on the important information (e.g. by using salience), code and link logically related elements, create impressions, and generate emotional responses (Jones, 1997;Kose, 2008;Pett & Wilson, 1996). Background.…”

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Delivering a Unified Design Model (UDM) - To Align Design to the Way the Human Brain Processes Visual Information

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Presentation tools like PowerPoint are used extensively (Park & Feigenson, 2013), but they are regularly criticised because poor application obfuscates the message (Schoeneborn, 2013). The project introduced in this paper focussed on developing a Unified Design Model (UDM) and an integrated set of research-based design principles, which would help users overcome identified weaknesses in the use of presentation aids. As a bi-product of the research, this project also addressed issues related to other computer-based visualisations. The first step taken to achieve this objective was to review research in neuroscience, biopsychology, and cognitive science. Collected information was used to develop an integrated understanding of the way the human brain processes information, and particularly visual content. This knowledge was then integrated with guidance and results from psychophysics and design related publications, to create a set of draft principles that holistically covered the key aspects of visual design. In all, the information from 1640 publications was used to develop these draft design principles. The validity of these draft principles was tested through an experimental program, which is explained in the PhD thesis at Hilliard (2016). In the interests of brevity, this paper only introduces the UDM framework. However, even this short introduction to the UDM gives important insights into the design of presentations, and other forms of computer-based visualisations, including web pages and e-learning material.

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“…Figure 1 illustrates several key aspects of the solution we chose for the Fractions Tutor. First, our choice in color re-flects the finding that students in grades 4 and 5 have a preference for less intense colors with lower saturation and hue, compared to younger students [32][33]. We also made sure the colors we selected are gender neutral [33].…”

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Why interactive learning environments can have it all

Rau

Aleven

Rummel

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Designing interactive learning environments (ILEs; e.g., intelligent tutoring systems, educational games, etc.) is a challenging interdisciplinary process that needs to satisfy multiple stakeholders. ILEs need to function in real educational settings (e.g., schools) in which a number of goals interact. Several instructional design methodologies exist to help developers address these goals. However, they often lead to conflicting recommendations. Due to the lack of an established methodology to resolve such conflicts, developers of ILEs have to rely on ad-hoc solutions. We present a principled methodology to resolve such conflicts. We build on a well-established design process for creating Cognitive Tutors, a highly effective type of ILE. We extend this process by integrating methods from multiple disciplines to resolve design conflicts. We illustrate our methodology's effectiveness by describing the iterative development of the Fractions Tutor, which has proven to be effective in classroom studies with 3,000 4 th -6 th graders.

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Color research and its application to the design of instructional materials

Cited by 31 publications

References 46 publications

The impact of color combinations on the legibility of a Web page text presented on CRT displays

The impact of color combinations on the legibility of a Web page text presented on CRT displays

Delivering a Unified Design Model (UDM) - To Align Design to the Way the Human Brain Processes Visual Information

Why interactive learning environments can have it all

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