The effect of the visual-auditory dimension of cognitive style

Author

John, David ; Boucouvalas, Anthony

Author_Institution

Sch. of Design Eng. & Comput., Bournemouth Univ., Poole, UK

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

179

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the effect that the visual-auditory dimension of cognitive style has on users of multimedia systems. The relative performance of users cannot be explained by examining their cognitive style classification that is calculated by a purely visual test. Therefore an extension to the visual classification is proposed that reflects the way individuals´ perceive information that is presented using both audio and video. This paper reviews the visual definition of cognitive style and the auditory dimension. Then the performance of subjects in a series of experiments is analysed to assess whether the new definition of cognitive style explains their behaviour.

Keywords

audio-visual systems; human factors; multimedia systems; user interfaces; audio; cognitive style; experiments; human factors; multimedia systems; user interfaces; user performance; video; visual-auditory dimension; Automatic testing; Design engineering; Humans; Information technology; Multimedia communication; Multimedia computing; Multimedia systems; Performance analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Interfaces, 2002. ITI 2002. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on

ISSN

1330-1012

Print_ISBN

953-96769-5-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITI.2002.1024671

Filename

1024671