Mayer's personalization principle is applied here. The robot acts as a social agent, welcoming and orienting the learner. Mayer's visible author's principle states that learner's work harder when they feel they are in a conversation with the author (the robot). (Until the learner interacts with their mentor avatar - later in the simulation - the robot takes on the persona of the mentor/author.) This screen also exemplifies the pedagogical agent who helps guide the learning process. The coherence principle remains in effect here as the stairs and the robot are the only visual data that need to be processed. Mayer's modality principle is in effect as well. When possible words should be presented in audio, rather than presented in on-screen text, because two chanels (the visual and the audio) can process the same amount of information, but more efficiently. Text based words would be processed as images, and when combined with the other visuals in this scene, create too much demand on the visual channel.
Here are the comments made by the member of the class:
Ann
Pearl
Suzan
Teklaeb
How Multimedia Theory is Applied to the Design
Mayer's personalization principle is applied here. The robot acts as a social agent, welcoming and orienting the learner. Mayer's visible author's principle states that learner's work harder when they feel they are in a conversation with the author (the robot). (Until the learner interacts with their mentor avatar - later in the simulation - the robot takes on the persona of the mentor/author.) This screen also exemplifies the pedagogical agent who helps guide the learning process. The coherence principle remains in effect here as the stairs and the robot are the only visual data that need to be processed. Mayer's modality principle is in effect as well. When possible words should be presented in audio, rather than presented in on-screen text, because two chanels (the visual and the audio) can process the same amount of information, but more efficiently. Text based words would be processed as images, and when combined with the other visuals in this scene, create too much demand on the visual channel.
Here are the comments made by the member of the class:
Ann
Pearl
Suzan
Teklaeb