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Researcher: Richard E. Mayer

 
URL:   www.psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/mayer/index.php
 
Title:   Professor
Department:   Department of Psychology
Parent Organization:   University of California, Santa Barbara
Organization(s):
Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior
Biography:
"Dr. Mayer's research concerns cognition, instruction, and technology, including: (1) multimedia learning, such as determining how illustrations affect how people learn from scientific text, how people learn scientific explanations from computer-based animation and narration, or how people learn to solve problems from computer games, simulations, and virtual reality; (2) mathematical problem solving, such as analyzing the process of solving algebra story problems or how people learn to solve statistics problems; and (3) human-computer interaction, such as investigating how novices learn to interact with computers or how to design on-line digital libraries that promote scientific reasoning."
Bibliography:

Research Interests:
Games
Human/computer interaction
Virtual Reality
 
Research Discplines:
Psychology
 
Projects:
No Associations Found
 
Contact Information:
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Record created 10/3/2002 7:51:13 AM by lester
Last modified on 6/9/2004 10:14:03 PM by admin
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