Designing Procedural Graphics for Surgical Patient-Education Modules: An Experimental Study

Technical Communication Quarterly Mar 2008

Designing Procedural Graphics for Surgical Patient-Education Modules: An Experimental Study

Debopriyo Roy University of Aizu

Abstract

To understand how readers approach mechanical procedural instructions, this study tested surgical patient-education modules for the effectiveness of route and survey spatial perspectives in text. The results showed that subjects' ability to comprehend an intricate procedural action in surgery varies with learning styles and task approach along with different text-graphic perspectives. Overall, survey perspective worked better than route perspective in text. Readers' self-reporting of task difficulty and the effects of practicing did not notably affect their judgment.

Journal: Technical Communication Quarterly
Published: 2008-03-17
DOI: 10.1080/10572250701878850
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multimodality

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