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https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.55645
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
2019
iv, 44 pages : color illustrations
Masters Thesis
Academic theses
Text
eng
Lefevre, Maryssa
Craig, Scotty
Roscoe, Rod
Branaghan, Russ
Arizona State University
Partial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2019
Includes bibliographical references (pages 36-38)
Field of study: Human systems engineering
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.
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.
The impact of the narrator's gender on multimedia learning