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Art of Animation used for Imparting Education to the Illiterate
DIPJIT PAUL
Abstract
To help the world's illiterate and semi-literate computer users, we share research
towards an understanding of the best audio-visual representation for presenting ideas.
To the best of our knowledge, our user study is the first of its kind. We showed 200
illiterate participants one representation of 13 different health symptoms, chosen at
random from among the next ten: text, static sketches, static pictures, hand-drawn
visuals, and video, with or without voice annotations. The objective was to test how well
each kind of representation would work with a non-literate audience. A procedure for
producing each representation used in the experiment that reliably compares one
representing style with another. Three main conclusions can be drawn from this
research: (1) richer information is not inevitably better understood overall; (2) the
relative importance of dynamic pictures versus static pictures depends upon a number
of factors; and (3) voice annotation generally aids in speed of understanding, but
bimodal audiovisual data can be perplexing for the target population. The significance of
these findings is discussed, and other, more in-depth findings are offered.
Keywords
Illiterate users; audio-visual icons; text-free user interfaces
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