Abstract
This paper describes two experiments carried out to investigate the production and evaluation of multimodal answer presentations in the context of a medical question answering system. In a production experiment participants had to produce answers to different types of questions. The results show that about one in four produced answers using multiple media. In an evaluation experiment, users had to evaluate different types of multimodal answer presentations. Answers with an informative visual were evaluated as more informative and more attractive than answers with a mere illustrative visual.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Exploiting the Opportunities: learning with Textual, Graphical and Multimodal Representations |
| Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the EARLI SIG2 2008 Conference |
| Editors | A. Maes, S. Ainsworth |
| Publisher | EARLI Special Interest Group Text and Graphics |
| Pages | 72-76 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-90-74029-33-9 |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2008 |
| Event | EARLI SIG 2008 Conference: Exploiting the Opportunities: learning with Textual, Graphical and Multimodal Representations - Tilburg, Netherlands Duration: 27 Aug 2008 → 29 Aug 2008 |
Conference
| Conference | EARLI SIG 2008 Conference |
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| Country/Territory | Netherlands |
| City | Tilburg |
| Period | 27/08/08 → 29/08/08 |
Keywords
- Multimodal information presentation
- Cognitive engineering
- Document design
- Visual media