The importance of interactive questioning techniques in the comprehension of algorithm animations

Authors:
Philippa Rhodes;Eileen Kraemer;Bina Reed
Affiliations:
The University of Georgia, Athens, GA;The University of Georgia, Athens, GA;The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Venue:
SoftVis '06 Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Software visualization
Year:
2006

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Abstract

The purpose of the study presented in this paper is to analyze the usefulness of various types of pop-up questions used in algorithm animations. Preliminary analysis indicates that providing feedback to pop-up questions increases the participant's ability to correctly answer both pop-up questions and regular test questions while the form of interaction required of the user via pop-up questions lessens the overall performance, though not significantly.