Effect Of Visuospatial Cue On Animation Learning:Evidence From Eye Movement

The Effect of cue on animation learning is a important issue. In this study we combines the eye movement technology and post questionnaires to explore the effect of cue, learner’s prior knowledge and the animation’s speed on multimedia learning and attention distribution.In the first study, a2cue (uncue, cue) X2experience (low prior knowledge, high prior knowledge) between-subject design was conducted in order to investigate the effect of cue and learner’s prior knowledge on students’attention distribution and information processing level. The result is that:the retention test score is higher in the uncue condition and there is no difference in the migration test score between the cue and the uncue condition. The migration and retention test score in high prior knowledge growp is more than that in low prior knowledge group. High prior knowledge learner pay more attention to the picture than to the word.In the second study, a2cue (uncue, cue)×2speed (fast, low) between-subject design was conducted in order to investigate the effect of cue and animation’s speed on learning performance and students’attention distribution. The retention test score in uncue group is higher than that in the cue group while there is no difference between the cue and uncue group in migration test score. There is also no difference between the fast group and slow group in retention and migration test score. There are less fixation counts and longer fixation duration time in the cue condition than in uncue condition. There are more fixation counts and longer fixation duration time in slow group than in fast group.In the third study, a2cue (uncue, cue) X2language concise (concise, redundancy) between-subject design was conducted in order to investigate the effect of cue and language concise on students’ attention distribution and information processing level. There is no difference between the cue and uncue group in the retention and migration test score. There are more fixation counts and higher fixation frequency in the uncue condition than in the cue condition. There are less fixation counts, fixation frequency, scanpath length and glance counts in the language concise condition than in the language redudance condition.Through the three experiments, we draw the following conclusions:(1) The cue in animation is not able to improve the retention and migration test score;(2)The cue can attract learner’s attention to relevance information;(3)The high prior knowledge learners pay more attention to the picture than the words;(3)There is an interaction between the cue and the prior knowledge, the cue is not useful to high prior knowledge learner; (5)The language concise condition is helpful for multimedia learning.