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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Design, development and testing of an interactive multimedia information system for classmates of young cancer patients: A case study Abstract: The purpose of this case study was to develop, test and evaluate a multimedia interactive information retrieval system for children which would be easy to learn to use and would keep their interest while accessing information on a sensitive subject, cancer in children. To explore the multimedia aspects of this project, material collected for presentation was displayed in two ways: the visual database was stored on a videodisc and displayed on a color monitor, and the factual database was stored on the computer's hard disk and displayed on the computer's monitor. The children interacted with the information system through a one-button mouse and the interface stored on the computer's hard disk. Data were collected by pre- and post-tests given to students of a fourth grade class from an elementary school located in Wilkinsburg, one of the boroughs adjacent to the city of Pittsburgh. There were few statistically significant results in this case study. Based on one class of 22 children, the participants had only a limited amount of time to navigate through the system and to assimilate the information presented. However, the results of this case study suggest that the databases provided useful information about cancer and that the information retrieval system was easy to use. |
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- Muhammad Ali Al-Tayyeb - University of Pittsburgh (1982)