2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Motivation-enhancing process in reading instructional manuals: An eye-tracking study
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23730609
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Educational psychology
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| Research Institution | Shinshu University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | わかりやすさ / マニュアル / 視線 / 防災 / 動機づけ / 非連続型テキスト / 読解 |
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| Research Abstract |
I studied motivation-enhancing process in reading instructional manuals with non-continuous texts (illustrations or figures). I carried out four experiments, of which two employed eye-tracking. These experiments led to results including the followings: (a) motivation effect of illustrations remained unchanged within three seconds in the early phase of reading, (b) the ratio of reading texts increased within ten seconds, enhancing participants' subjective understandability, (c) the ratio of referring to figures increased in the second half of reading among participants with high reading ability.
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