DocumentCode
2499776
Title
Evaluating the effectiveness of a multimedia advisor tool
Author
Shin, Jae Eun ; Sutcliffe, Alistair
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput., Manchester Univ., UK
fYear
2003
fDate
28-31 Oct. 2003
Firstpage
257
Lastpage
259
Abstract
This study is to investigate the usefulness of a multimedia advisor tool which provides advice on media selection and attention effects for multimedia systems design. The advisor tool was designed to recommend appropriate media types with examples according to information types and communication goals. The tool also shows media examples for essential attention types. A series of usability evaluations was carried out to measure the usefulness and effectiveness of the tool, and the result showed that the tool has a positive impact on multimedia design.
Keywords
multimedia computing; software performance evaluation; software tools; media selection; multimedia advisor tool; multimedia design; multimedia systems design; software tool; usability evaluation; Animation; Guidelines; Information management; Libraries; Multimedia systems; Natural languages; Speech; Usability; User interfaces; Visual BASIC;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE Symposium on
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8225-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/HCC.2003.1260241
Filename
1260241
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