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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"message design"”.
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Considerations for Instructional Message Design in Mobile Learning: A Design and Development Study
… Sabourin, and Kosturko, 2015). Instructional message design principles advance empirical tools aimed at producing lessons that allow for effective learning (Bishop, 2014). The purpose of this study was to develop a set of considerations for designing messages for mobile learning primarily …
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The Effects of Construct Differentiation and Equal-Peer vs. Legitimate-Authority Relationships on Message Design in Compliance-Gaining Situations
… as a completely crossed 2 x 2 x 3 between-groups design and involved 139 college students as subjects. The factors were construct differentiation (the measure was derived from written impressions of liked and disliked peers), communicator/message recipient relationship (variations in descriptions …
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The logic behind lies: A rational approach to deceptive message production
… interested in the production of deceptive messages, no attempt has been made to provide a conceptual basis for addressing deceptive message design. The goal of the current project was to develop a theoretical basis for addressing deceptive message design. Drawing upon O'Keefe's theory of …
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Believe it or not: youth and young adult female perceptions of the credibility of online multimedia messages
In the age of Internet, multimedia messages and speed information, it is highly important for communicators to design and create more effective messages to reach their targets. This research addressed the issue of message design by investigating the impact the emotional tone of an online multimedia …
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Instructional Design Guidelines for Procedural Instruction Delivered via Augmented Reality
… when delivering instructional content. A set of message design guidelines, created using a design and development research approach, can be used by novice designers to effectively manage the use of words and pictures while developing instructional applications for AR.
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The Expanded Civic Space of E-Government: Where the State and Citizen Interact Digitally
… technical features of what is considered good message design or high message quality are present. The normative tradition of public administration in combination with prior e-government research is used to construct evaluation criteria for assessing latent public values contained in government …
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The Design and Development of Guidelines for Interactive Course Organizers
… and empirically- grounded guidelines to design and develop of ICOs. It is anticipated that these guidelines can assist course developers and instructional designers in designing ICOs. This study employed a design and developmental research methodology with four phases: analysis, design, …
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The graphic side of fear: The effects of anti-tobacco graphic threat appeals
… high-cigarette dependent smokers evaluate these messages compared to low-cigarette dependent smokers using a mixed, 3 x 2 factorial design. A pilot study involving focus groups, interviews, and evaluation questionnaires (<em>N</em>=10) was conducted to classify graphic threat appeals and develop …
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Development and Evaluation of a Decision Support Tool to Incorporate Redundancy in the Development of Instructional Materials
Novice Instructional Designers (IDs) often struggle to perform at the same level as experts. Specialized knowledge and experience are needed to discover the challenges and device appropriate solutions. Scaffold, guides, and heuristics can help novice when needing to perform tasks that require …
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Ease the résistance : the role of narrative and other-referencing in attenuating psychological reactance to persuasive diabetes messages
… of pathways through this resistance to enhance message persuasiveness. A 2 (narrative) x 2 (other-referencing) x 2 (message) x 4 (order) experiment tested whether packaging overt recommendations as a story rather than an informational argument (i.e. narrative structure) and highlighting the …
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Visual and participatory research methods in the development of mass communication health messages for underserved populations
Mass communication health campaign messages play critical roles in public health, yet studies show mixed effectiveness in reaching and impacting underserved populations. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the benefits of using visual and participatory research techniques towards health …
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The Impact of Textual Display Strategies on Learning from Electronic Presentations
… classrooms that employ electronic presentations designed in PowerPoint and other similar software programs. The design of the slides in such electronic presentations has an impact upon student learning, and ample recommendations are made within the literature as to specific strategies that serve …
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MADD MESSAGE EFFECTS: A TWELVE-YEAR RANDOMIZED TRIAL
… of punishments and loss of freedom, hoping this message will deter DWIs. It is remarkable that although the VIP message is considered a primary DWI intervention, yet no studies have investigated VIP message effects. VIP message effects, their persistence and decay, are chronicled here over the …
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IMPROVING CHRONIC ILLNESS MEDICATION ADHERENCE: A COUNTERFACTUAL THINKING-BASED MODEL OF PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION
… effectiveness of counterfactual thinking as a message design strategy aimed at increasing drug adherence among individuals at risk for nonadherence. Findings from experiments 1 and 2 showed no effect of counterfactual thinking on medication adherence. Findings from experiment 3 showed that, in …
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Effects of Self-Efficacy and Response Efficacy Messages in Health News: Changing Health Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions
… little is known about how cancer-related messages in the news media can affect consumers. Most studies focus on aggregate trends or other sources of health information instead of the news media. At the same time, self- and response-efficacy are two widely used variables in health research. …
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The usability and effectiveness of a printed information booklet : a survey amongst small-scale rural farmers
… on sunflower production and whether these messages really communicate the desired information. The research established that the material is not suitable for the target audience. The findings of the study provided valuable information for development communication message design. It is …
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Effects of Field Dependent-Independent Cognitive Styles and Cueing Strategies on Students' Recall and Comprehension
… strategies embedded in computer delivered text messages affected the recall and comprehension of students who differed in their field dependent-independent cognitive style orientations. Two hundred thirty-eight undergraduate students of Virginia Tech participated the study, and 219 sets of valid …
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Improving the Design of Civil Infrastructure Messages for the Public
… Since every human is intrinsically different, designing, and dispersing information about civil infrastructure that accommodates everyone, while also being direct and concise has been a challenge for policymakers and other federal, state, local, and tribal civil engineering stakeholders. Though …
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Crafting and delivering effective energy and water conservation messages: The role of forceful language and source features in psychological reactance
… may be addressed with theory-guided campaign design (see Petersen et al., 2015). The current dissertation turned to communication theory to help create strategic energy and water conservation messages, thus advancing communication theory and environmental communication practice. Among the …
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Theory and evidence-based development and feasibility testing of a weight loss intervention (Health4LIFE) for overweight and obese primary school educators employed at public schools in low-income settings, Western Cape Province, South Africa
… developed intervention in a mixed methods study design. Intervention development Methods: This research firstly involved identification of an appropriate intervention development framework and then behaviour change theories for integration in the framework. The Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW) …