Title :
Evaluating the effectiveness of a multimedia advisor tool
Author :
Shin, Jae Eun ; Sutcliffe, Alistair
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput., Manchester Univ., UK
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;
Conference_Titel :
Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8225-0
DOI :
10.1109/HCC.2003.1260241
