Text-Graphic Instructions that Help Readers Mentally Animate Procedures: A Case Study with Surgical Patient Education Modules

To understand how readers approach mechanical procedural instructions, this study tested surgical patient education modules for the effectiveness of route and survey spatial perspectives in text. The results showed that subjects´ ability to comprehend an intricate procedural action in surgery varies with learning styles and the reader´s interpretation of task context along with different text-graphic perspectives. Overall, survey perspective worked better than route perspective in text