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Title
The impact of the narrator's gender on multimedia learning
Description
The utilization of multimedia videos has increasingly become more popular, especially in the field of education. In order to facilitate learning it is important to create a natural interaction between the learner and the on-screen material. This study focused on improving the facilitation of the information within a multimedia learning video by focusing on the gender and quality of computer-synthesized voices. Using a randomized pretest - posttest design the study looked at how the gender of the narrator affected a person's ability to learn and implement a new task. Narration was performed by a male and female, classic and modern synthesized voices to determine if there were gender effects across both generations of voices. The participants’ learned knowledge was assessed through a multiple-choice assessment and a word to image matching transfer assessment. Results showed no significant results. Future studies should consider a more reliable knowledge assessment and utilize and larger sample size.
Date Created
2019
Contributors
- Lefevre, Maryssa (Author)
- Craig, Scotty (Thesis advisor)
- Roscoe, Rod (Committee member)
- Branaghan, Russ (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- Multimedia communications
- multimedia learning
- participant gender
- voice gender
- voice quality
- Sex differences in education
- Speech synthesis
- Multimedia communications--Psychological aspects.
- Multimedia communications
- Voice in education--Psychological aspects.
- Voice in education
- Oral communication--Psychological aspects.
- Oral communication
- Communication--Sex differences.
Resource Type
Extent
iv, 44 pages : color illustrations
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.55645
Statement of Responsibility
by Maryssa Lefevre
Description Source
Viewed on December 16, 2020
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2019
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (pages 36-38)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Human systems engineering
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- 2021-08-26 09:47:01
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