Jean-Michel Boucheix

TL;DR: This paper used eye tracking to investigate a novel cueing approach for directing learner attention to low salience, high relevance aspects of a complex animation and found that spreading-colour cues resulted in better targeting of attention to thematically relevant aspects and in higher comprehension scores than arrow cues or no cues.

TL;DR: The first experiment indicated that an animation as well as integrated sequential static frames enhanced comprehension, and the second experiment showed that a controllable animation did not have a powerful effect on comprehension, except for learners with low spatial and mechanical reasoning abilities.

TL;DR: In this article, the time course of learners' processing of a complex animation was studied using a dynamic diagram of a piano mechanism, where two forms of cueing (standard colour cueing and anti-cueing) were administered either before or during the animated segment of the presentation.

TL;DR: The effectiveness of animations containing two novel forms of animation cueing that target relations between event units rather than individual entities was compared with that of animation containing conventional entity-based cueing or no cues, suggesting that the Animation Processing Model provides a principled basis for designing more effective animation support.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of three factors on the construction of a mental model: illustration format (animated versus static) signaling cues (presence versus absence) learner-control of information delivery (three rhythms of presentation: speed, slow and self-controlled).