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An empirical study of attending and comprehending multimedia presentations

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International Multimedia Conference archive
Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Multimedia table of contents

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Pages: 265 - 275

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-871-1

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Pete Faraday	The Centre for HCI Design, City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1 0HB, UK
Alistair Sutcliffe	The Centre for HCI Design, City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1 0HB, UK

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SIGMOD: ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data
SIGAPP: ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
SIGCOMM: ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
SIGLINK: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
SIGBIO: ACM Special Interest Group on Biomedical Computing
SIGOPS: ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems
SIGCAPH: ACM SIGCAPH Computers and the Physically Handicapped
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
SIGGROUP: ACM Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work
SIGMIS: ACM Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems
Subjects: Evaluation/methodology

Additional Classification:
G. Mathematics of Computing
G.2 DISCRETE MATHEMATICS
G.2.2 Graph Theory
Subjects: Graph algorithms

J. Computer Applications
J.3 LIFE AND MEDICAL SCIENCES
Subjects: Medical information systems

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Human Factors, Performance

Keywords:
comprehension, eye tracking, presentation design

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Alistair Sutcliffe: colleagues

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