Investigating the Impact of Interaction Design

dc.contributor.advisorFaiola, Anthony
dc.contributor.authorBuher, Melynda
dc.date.accessioned2010-05-25T20:11:20Z
dc.date.available2010-05-25T20:11:20Z
dc.degree.date2007-12
dc.degree.disciplineSchool of Informatics
dc.degree.grantorIndiana University
dc.degree.levelM.S.
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, the use of online courses has emerged as a way to quickly and easily deliver content to large numbers of trainees. In writing these courses, pharmaceutical course developers often use traditional instructional design models and techniques to design course content for online learning. But is this truly enough? Interaction design principles and practices can also be incorporated to increase the quality of learning by improving learner comprehension and retention. Using pharmaceutical content and learners, this research investigated how interaction design impacts online learning by measuring the effect of applying different graphical user interfaces. The results were surprising, as the data showed no significant improvement in retention rates between graphical treatments. However, the incorporation of graphics did slightly improve overall course satisfaction.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1805/2140
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.7912/C2/882
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.subjectOnline Course Graphic Designen
dc.subjectImproved Content Retentionen
dc.subjectOnline Pharmaceutical Coursesen
dc.subjectInteraction Designen
dc.titleInvestigating the Impact of Interaction Designen
dc.typeThesisen
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