Multimedia systems in distance education: effects of usability on learning

Parlangeli, Oronzo; Marchigiani, Enrica; Bagnara, Sebastiano

doi:10.1016/s0953-5438(98)00054-x

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“…Liao (1998), Parlangeli et al (1999), and others have compared hypermedia with other forms of instruction and failed to show real benefit for any instructional form.…”

Section: Reviewing the Reviewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multimedia Learning with Hypermedia

Dillon¹,

Jobst²

2005

The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning

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Hypermedia proponents suggest that its ability to make information available in a multitude of formats, provide individual control, engage the learner, and cater to various learning styles and needs makes it the harbinger of a new learning revolution. However, despite nearly two decades of research on hypermedia in education, researchers have not yet solved some of the basic issues raised by this technology. In this chapter, we review empirical studies performed since Dillon and Gabbard's (1998)

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“…Liao (1998), Parlangeli et al (1999), and others have compared hypermedia with other forms of instruction and failed to show real benefit for any instructional form.…”

Section: Reviewing the Reviewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multimedia Learning with Hypermedia

Dillon¹,

Jobst²

2005

The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning

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“…Usability is a key issue in human-computer interaction (HCI) since it is the aspect that commonly refers to the quality of the user interface [1], Usability is defined by International Standards Organization 9241-11 as [2] "The extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context." This study is focused on user satisfaction which is defined as the perceived usability of the overall system, and how its users accept it and the people affected by the system.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this study, the focus is to compare the user satisfaction of the two diagnosis expert systems for cattle diseases. Different expert systems for diagnosing diseases have been developed mostly using CLIPS shell [1]- [3] which are text based. Some of these systems use software such as ESTA [4]- [6] which is an "expert system shell developed by Prolog that allows the use of using pictures in the title, parameter, in advice and in action list" [7]- [9].…”

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Comparison of User Satisfaction between Text and Virtual Reality Based Expert Systems for Diagnosing Cattle Diseases

Nkabiti¹,

Galani²,

Zungeru³

2017

IJIEE

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Abstract-Even though usability testing of software applications has been studied for decades, little empirical researches have been conducted in Agriculture domain, especially in comparing the usability of none-immersive virtual reality and text based diagnosis expert systems for diagnosing cattle diseases. A quasi -experimental research was conducted in which 62 cattle farmers both commercial and subsistent used either a non-virtual reality based (System A) or a text-based (System B) expert systems to diagnose cattle diseases. An attitude rating scale Software Usability Measurement Inventory (SUMI) was used to collect data and the reactions towards the expert-based systems. The measures were efficiency, the affect, helpfulness of the system, controllability system, and system Learnability. The results obtained from the research indicated that the group of farmers using System A was more satisfied as compared to those using system B.Index Terms-Usability, human computer interaction, non-immersive virtual reality, expert system, cattle diseases, user satisfaction.

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“…There is limited research surrounding usability of assessment tools relative to studies investigating usability of educational technology environments [12][13][14]. Usability is important in CAA.…”

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Evidence Based Design of Heuristics for Computer Assisted Assessment

Sim

Read

Cockton

2009

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2009

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Abstract. The use of heuristics for the evaluation of interfaces is a well studied area. Currently there appear to be two main research areas in relation to heuristics: the analysis of methods to improve the effectiveness of heuristic evaluations; and the development of new heuristic sets for novel and specialised domains. This paper proposes an evidence based design approach to the development of domain specific heuristics and shows how this method was applied within the context of computer assisted assessment. A corpus of usability problems was created through a series of student surveys, heuristic evaluations, and a review of the literature. This corpus was then used to synthesise a set of domain specific heuristics for evaluating CAA applications. The paper describes the process, and presents a new set of heuristics for evaluating CAA applications.

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Multimedia systems in distance education: effects of usability on learning

Cited by 93 publications

References 12 publications

Multimedia Learning with Hypermedia

Multimedia Learning with Hypermedia

Comparison of User Satisfaction between Text and Virtual Reality Based Expert Systems for Diagnosing Cattle Diseases

Evidence Based Design of Heuristics for Computer Assisted Assessment

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