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Designing Effective Video-Based Modeling Examples Using Gaze And Gesture Cues, Kim Ouwehand, Tamara Van Gog, Fred Paas

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Research suggests that learners will likely spend a substantial amount of time looking at the model's face when it is visible in a video-based modeling example. Consequently, in this study we hypothesized that learners might not attend timely to the task areas the model is referring to, unless their attention is guided to such areas by the model's gaze or gestures. Results showed that the students in all conditions looked more at the female model than at the task area she referred to. However, the data did show a gradual decline in the difference between attention toward the model and …