Volume 17 No 6 (2019)
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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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