This paper explores how contact points or co-references between an animation and text should be designed in web pages. Guidelines are derived from an eye tracking study. A dynamic HTML authoring tool is described which supports these requirements. An evaluation study is reported in which four designs of animation in web pages were tested.

ABSTRACT The paper summarises empirical research that led to guidelines for directing the viewing/reading sequence in multimedia presentations. A method for scripting or evaluating multimedia presentations is described and illustrated with a case study. A design advisor tool based on this work is used to critique a sample MM presentation. A tool validation study with novice designers is reported. KEYWORDS Presentation Design, Guidelines, Tool support INTRODUCTION One of the problems in the design of expository Multimedia (MM) interfaces is knowing whether the presentation will successfully deliver appropriate information to the user. In a review of studies on MM instructional systems, Kozma [6] proposes a ‘micro-level’ approach will be required to produce effective multimedia : ‘...media decisions for integrated multimedia will be micro-level decisions... .._ of appropriate media that can respond to specific cognitive needs and task requirements.’ The problem is thus, what information can the user extract from a presentation, and how can we assist MM designers in making these micro- level decisions when producing their presentations ? Our work has attempted to address these issues by empirically investigating attention to MM presentations and in producing design guidelines. However, experience tells us that guidelines alone are rarely effective. The paper thus also reports research on guideline delivery via methods and tools. The paper has two main sections. The Krst section describes the design method we have developed to encapsulate the guidelines. Results of our previous eye tracking studies on MM presentations are summarised to introduce the guidelines and provide an example application to illustrate operation of the method and tool. The second part of the paper describes a prototype advisor tool which embeds the guidelines as rules. The tool critiques the presentation, providing warnings and advice during authoring. The paper concludes with an evaluation of the tool’s effectiveness in helping novice designers

Article Free Access Share on Making contact points between text and images Authors: Pete Faraday The Centre for HCl Design, City University, Northampton Square London, EC1 OHB, UK The Centre for HCl Design, City University, Northampton Square London, EC1 OHB, UKView Profile , Alistair Sutcliffe The Centre for HCl Design, City University, Northampton Square London, EC1 OHB, UK The Centre for HCl Design, City University, Northampton Square London, EC1 OHB, UKView Profile Authors Info & Claims MULTIMEDIA '98: Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on MultimediaSeptember 1998 Pages 29–37https://doi.org/10.1145/290747.290752Published:01 September 1998Publication History 14citation561DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations14Total Downloads561Last 12 Months25Last 6 weeks4 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

Article Free Access Share on Designing effective multimedia presentations Authors: Peter Faraday Centre for HCI Design, City University, London EC1 0HB, UK Centre for HCI Design, City University, London EC1 0HB, UKView Profile , Alistair Sutcliffe Centre for HCI Design, City University, London EC1 0HB, UK Centre for HCI Design, City University, London EC1 0HB, UKView Profile Authors Info & Claims CHI '97: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systemsMarch 1997 Pages 272–278https://doi.org/10.1145/258549.258753Published:27 March 1997Publication History 58citation1,810DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations58Total Downloads1,810Last 12 Months87Last 6 weeks25 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my Alerts New Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

The paper reviews studies of attention and recall of expositoryThe results of the studies are taken as a basis to justify the MM presentations, and summarises findings into key guidelines importance of moment by moment design.The problems found in for attentional design.An expert system based design advisor tool attentional design are used to inform a set of guidelines for is then described, which uses the guidelines to analyse MM presentation design.These are then extended to form a method for presentations.analysing MM presentations.

Article Free Access Share on Designing presentation in multimedia interfaces Authors: Alistair Sutcliffe Centre for HCI Design, School of Informatics, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1 0HB, UK Centre for HCI Design, School of Informatics, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1 0HB, UKView Profile , Peter Faraday Centre for HCI Design, School of Informatics, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1 0HB, UK Centre for HCI Design, School of Informatics, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1 0HB, UKView Profile Authors Info & Claims CHI '94: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 1994 Pages 92–98https://doi.org/10.1145/191666.191710Published:24 April 1994Publication History 16citation1,108DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations16Total Downloads1,108Last 12 Months27Last 6 weeks4 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF