The effectiveness of compositional animation design: Evidence from eye tracking

Jean-Michel Boucheix (1) , Richard K Lowe (2)

1 LEAD - Laboratoire d'Etude de l'Apprentissage et du Développement [Dijon]
2 Curtin University

Learners have difficulty in decomposing conventionally designed animations to obtain raw material suitable for building high quality mental models. A composition approach to designing animations based on the Animation Processing Model was developed as a principled alternative to prevailing approaches. It provides learners with pre-decomposed material that is structured and sequenced to facilitate the relation building required for effective mental model construction. Study of a compositional animation that presented material in a contiguous fashion resulted in higher quality mental models of a piano mechanism than non-contiguous or control (conventional) versions. Relation building required to link pre-decomposed material was investigated with eye movements data analysis: a relational index measure was devised and used to asses mental model construction. This relational index showed that the compositional animation led to superior mental models because it particularly fostered relational processing.

Mots clés: Assessment methods and tools; Comprehension of text and graphics; Computer-assisted learning; Instructional design; Learning Technologies; Mathematics; Mixed-method research; Multimedia learning; Problem solving; Reading comprehension

Domaines: Psychologie

Jean-Michel Boucheix, Richard K Lowe. The effectiveness of compositional animation design: Evidence from eye tracking. 17th Biennial conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Aug 2017, Tampere, Finland. ⟨hal-01678747⟩