Effect Of Visual Aids Research Articles

The Effect of Visual Aids on Reading Numeric Data Tables.

Data tables are one of the most common ways in which people encounter data. Although mostly built with text and numbers, data tables have a spatial layout and often exhibit visual elements meant to facilitate their reading. Surprisingly, there is an empirical knowledge gap on how people read tables and how different visual aids affect people's reading of tables. In this work, we seek to address this vacuum through a controlled study. We asked participants to repeatedly perform four different tasks with four table representation conditions (plain tables, tables with zebra striping, tables with cell background color encoding cell value, and tables with in-cell bars with lengths encoding cell value). We analyzed completion time, error rate, gaze-tracking data, mouse movement and participant preferences. We found that color and bar encodings help for finding maximum values. For a more complex task (comparison of proportional differences) color and bar helped less than zebra striping. We also characterize typical human behavior for the four tasks. These findings inform the design of tables and research directions for improving presentation of data in tabular form.

The effectiveness of visual aids in teaching foreign languages

The article analyzes the effectiveness of visual aids in the process of teaching foreign languages and suggests ways to use them in the classroom.

Prevention of Littering through Improved Visual Design

Littering is a daunting environmental issue that occurs daily; the impact of littering can range from lowering the aesthetic appeal of a city to polluting waterways and biomes. Littering persists on a collective and individual level despite the existence of numerous laws and regulations that prohibit it. We assume that there is a correlation between the effectiveness of visual aids and littering behavior. Poorly designed prohibitive signs and inaccessible trash bins could be part of the reason why littering persists. The current research aims to evaluate existing prohibitive signs and trash bins and to design some improvements. The researchers used direct observation methods of visual designs based on socio-psychological persuasion techniques and a questionnaire conducted at the School of Environmental Science of Universitas Indonesia. The results showed that respondents were generally aware of littering being a serious issue that could lead to environmental problems. The university campus was generally clean; however, respondents stated that they often saw plastic trash in sewer and drainage areas. University residents do litter despite adverse social judgment. In addition, respondents stated that they responded better to visually pleasing encouragement posters rather than the standard prohibitive signs on proper waste disposal behavior.

Effect of Visual Aids During Surgical Consents on Patient Understanding and Satisfaction.

This study aimed to assess whether the use of visual aids to augment the consent process for pelvic floor surgeries affects patient understanding and satisfaction. We conducted a single-blind, randomized controlled trial. Adults planning robotic sacrocolpopexy or suburethral sling surgeries were eligible. All participants received standard preoperative consent counseling. Participants randomized to the intervention also viewed slides with visual aids that paralleled standard counseling; participants randomized to the control group received only standard counseling. All participants completed surveys after their preoperative visit, the day of surgery, and at their postoperative visit. Each survey contained 12 true-false questions about risks, benefits, and alternatives of surgery, and expectations during recovery. The primary outcome was the percentage of correct true-false questions. We conducted an intention-to-treat analysis. We randomized 32 participants undergoing robotic sacrocolpopexy and 32 undergoing suburethral sling surgeries, yielding 16 in the intervention group and 16 in the control group for each procedure. The intervention and control groups for both surgeries were similar in age, body mass index, race, education, and previous surgery for similar symptoms.Among participants undergoing robotic sacrocolpopexies, median knowledge scores at the preoperative visit were similar between the intervention (92% [interquartile range {IQR}, 86%-100%]) and control (86% [IQR, 75%-94%]) groups (P = 0.21). Similar results were seen for participants undergoing suburethral sling procedures in the intervention (83.3% [IQR, 71%-92%]) and control (83% [IQR, 75%-88%]) groups (P = 0.64). We found that using visual aids during the consent process for patients undergoing robotic sacrocolpopexy or suburethral sling surgeries did not improve knowledge.

Examining the Impact of Novel Pre-activity Tasks on Macro-Skills: The Case of Visual Aids Strategy on Writing Ability

The main concern of most researchers in the field of second and foreign language teaching is lessening the problems and eliminating the hinders on the way of learning a language. Writing is considered as one of the most challenging and complicated tasks for learners to perform particularly when they have to write in a second or foreign language. In fact, writing is difficult for students as it demands other linguistic, cognitive and metacognitive strategies to be used (Rao, 2007). Numerous studies were done on the importance of the pre-writing stage and activities which are directly and indirectly related to the theme of the writing. Go (1994) states that teachers of English as a Second Language can use prewriting activities at the earliest stages of instruction to help their students acquire good language skills. The main aim of this study was to examine the effects of visual aids as a pre- activity task on writing ability. To this aim 25 Iranian EFL learners, who are at the same level –intermediate- studying at Shokuh and Safir Institutes, Birjand, Iran were chosen. Two groups- one control and one experimental group- were studied. In control group the conventional method was used, while in experimental group, visual aids pre-activity task was administered. Both groups met the same level -Intermediate. At the end, the obtained data of the tests was analyzed by SPSS software. According to the obtained data researcher strongly concluded that visual aids had strongly a positive effect on the learners’ writing ability. This study can help teachers and syllabus designers in choosing and applying an effective pre-activity task.

선수지식의 차이를 고려한 수업전략: 인지부하이론의 관점에서 시각적 자료와 선행조직자 효과 분석

선수지식의 차이를 고려한 수업전략: 인지부하이론의 관점에서 시각적 자료와 선행조직자 효과 분석

Dementia-friendly neighbourhoods

Six research projects that will improve understanding of dementia are to receive £20 million in funding from the UK government. The projects, which will be overseen by the National Institute for Health Research and the Economic and Social Research Council, include investigations into creating dementia-friendly neighbourhoods; the lifestyle changes that can reduce the risk of developing the condition; training care home staff to support patients who become agitated; improving predictions of the future financial costs of dementia; living well with the condition; and the effects of visual aids on wellbeing and quality of life.

Human Performance in Cooperative Virtual Environments: the Effect of Visual Aids and Oral Communication

The Cooperative virtual environments, where users simultaneously manipulate objects, are one of the subfields of Collaborative virtual environments (CVEs). In this paper we simulate the use of two string based parallel robots in cooperative teleoperation task. Two users setting on separate machines connected through local network operate each robot. In this context, we investigate the effects of visual aids and oral communication on cooperation, co-presence and users performance. Ten volunteers had to cooperatively perform a peg-in-hole task. A second group of ten subjects perform the same task in a single user setup. The objective of the two experiments is twofold, firstly to compare the task's complexity of single user setup with that of the cooperative environment. Secondly we examine the influence of visual aids and oral communication on user's performance in the two different setups. Results revealed that shadow has a significant effect on task execution while arrows and oral communication not only increase users' performance but also enhance the sense of co-presence and awareness. We also observed that cooperative manipulation was more difficult as compared to single user manipulation.

The Effects of Visual Aids on Item Difficulty and Item Discrimination in a Reading Test

The Effects of Visual Aids on Item Difficulty and Item Discrimination in a Reading Test

The Current Condition of Visual Communication in Colleges and Universities of the United States

This paper is a discussion of the current condition of visual communication in American colleges and universities. In doing so, it analyzes the importance of visual communication and the unique epistemic power it possesses, and describes to what extent current academic practice has learned the lessons of the past so that it has become well equipped to deal with current needs in modem colleges and universities in the US. Particularly examined is the effectiveness of visual aids and computer-aided instruction. Besides, this paper also explains that visual communication is a dialogicalprocess where the way students perceive and understand their environment is influenced by their knowledge and experience of visual communication, and that visual intelligence has become a central part of academic culture. Finally, this paper provides some insights on the visual in American college classrooms for the decades to come.

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Analysis of operator's behaviour in manual tracking systems

In this paper, the authors aim to analyse the training performance of an operator performing a manual-tracking task and to study the effects of visual aids on the operator's training performance. A program called the Tacking Training System was developed and it allows the operator to manually track a moving target using a joystick and to monitor the operator's performance. Two sets of experiments, one with visual aids and another without, were conducted. The results of the experiments indicate that through continuous training, the performance of the operators can be improved and with visual aids, the training time of the operator can be shortened.

Effects of visual aids on acquisition of selected tennis skills.

The study compared the effects of supplemental visual aids on the acquisition of selected tennis skills. The forehand and backhand drive placement tests of the Hewitt Tennis Achievement Test were used to pretest, midtest, and posttest 55 subjects who were assigned to one of three treatments: control (instructor's verbal feedback only), videotaped replay viewing (with instructor's feedback), and loop-film viewing (modeling, with instructor's feedback). Each received 1200 min. of instruction. There were no statistically significant differences among groups; however, empirical evidence suggested that the use of videotaped replay and loop-film technique has merit and might be given consideration for use in instructional settings.

The conjunctive influence of source credibility and the use of visual materials on communicative effectiveness

Considerable emphasis has been placed by educators and communication scholars upon the use of audiovisual materials as a means of improving communication both in public speaking and in classroom instruction. The present study was designed to determine the effects of visual aids and speaker credibility on attitude change, communicative effectiveness, speaker credibility, and retention in a persuasive message presented on video tape. The results of the study seem to indicate that visuals do affect credibility and retention.

A Review of Research done on visual Aids-Filmstrips and Slides

From an educational point of view, it is important to know what kind of research has been conducted on the effectiveness of various visual aids in promoting learning, what valid conclusions can be derived from the mass of accumulated research data, and which of the prevalent beliefs about the effectiveness of these visual aids are supported by controlled observations and empirical data. This information is needed by both the sponsors and producers of educational and training visual aids so that planning and production may be more efficient in terms of both process and end-product. It is needed by users of visual and auditory channels so that best results can be realised in mass instruction, training and public information. Research workers in the field need this information to avoid unnecessary repetition of previous studies and to help in the better formulation of problems and the better design of new experiments so that systematic knowledge of the principles of visual communication can be extended and refined. This is, in the final analysis, a very practical thing for practical people. The purpose of this paper is to present such a summary of the visual aids research published in regard to filmstrips and slides. In concluding this review of research, a series of principles which appear to govern the influence of the same will be presented.

The Effectiveness of Visual Aids in Dental Teaching

INSTRUCTION in clinical phases of dentistry ne cessitates teaching students how to perform several key technical operations. In various dental schools this instruction has been accomplished by a variety of methods. An attempt has been made in the pr?s ent study to evaluate the practical effectiveness of instruction using: (1) a motion picture, (2) a lab oratory demonstration, and (3) a motion picture and a laboratory demonstration combined. The technic to be taught was that of molding a piece of platinum to an amalgam die, preparatory to making a porcelain jacket crown. This particu lar technic was selected because it would be one which a student would have had little opportunity to observe and which would be quite different from anything he had previously done. A color movie with sound track was made,show ing each step and describing this technical proce dure in detail. The instructor who narrated the movie was also the one who gave the laboratory demonstration.