TY - GEN
T1 - Impact of health knowledge on older adults' comprehension of multimedia health information
AU - D'Andrea, Laura
AU - Morrow, Dan
AU - Stine-Morrow, Elizabeth
AU - Shake, Matthew
AU - Bertel, Sven
AU - Kopren, Katie
AU - Chin, Jessie
AU - Conner-Garcia, Thembi
AU - Graumlich, James
AU - Murray, Michael
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - We studied hypertensive older adults' processing of multimedia (text and picture) displays of hypertension information, and how reading patterns related to hypertension knowledge and passage comprehension. Eye movements of 23 older adults were tracked as they studied 4 text-picture passages. Eye movements were analyzed during and after participants first read the passage. Compared to the less knowledgeable participants, more knowledgeable participants spent a greater proportion of time looking at the text than the pictures when first reading passages, but focused more on pictures than text afterwards. This pattern of fixation time was also associated with more accurate passage comprehension.
AB - We studied hypertensive older adults' processing of multimedia (text and picture) displays of hypertension information, and how reading patterns related to hypertension knowledge and passage comprehension. Eye movements of 23 older adults were tracked as they studied 4 text-picture passages. Eye movements were analyzed during and after participants first read the passage. Compared to the less knowledgeable participants, more knowledgeable participants spent a greater proportion of time looking at the text than the pictures when first reading passages, but focused more on pictures than text afterwards. This pattern of fixation time was also associated with more accurate passage comprehension.
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U2 - 10.1518/107118110X12829369200279
DO - 10.1518/107118110X12829369200279
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952918086
SN - 9781617820885
T3 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SP - 180
EP - 184
BT - 54th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 2010, HFES 2010
T2 - 54th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 2010, HFES 2010
Y2 - 27 September 2010 through 1 October 2010
ER -