Shangguan Chenyu, Wang Zhen, Gong Shaoying, Guo Yawei, Xu Sheng
School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China.
Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Wuhan, China.
Front Psychol. 2020 Jan 22;10:3065. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.03065. eCollection 2019.
Previous studies on multimedia learning have provided shreds of evidence for the positive effect of visually attractive emotional design on college students' emotion and learning outcomes. However, the effect may vary among middle school students. The aim of this study was to examine the impacts of visual and behavioral emotional design on the emotional, motivational and cognitive outcomes of middle school students. In Experiment 1, 50 participants (ages 13-15) were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: visual positive emotional design (colorful and anthropomorphic design) and visual neutral emotional design (achromatic and without anthropomorphic design). In Experiment 2, 173 participants (ages 13-16) were randomly assigned to one of four conditions created by the two factors: visual emotional design (positive vs. neutral) and behavioral emotional design (positive vs. neutral). The behavioral positive emotional design allows learners to interact with learning materials, whereas behavioral neutral emotional design only allows learners to watch learning video. Results showed that both visually attractive and behaviorally interactive design (visual positive emotion design and behavioral positive emotional design) had positive effect on learners' positive emotions. Combining visual positive with behavioral positive emotional design could facilitate learning performance.
以往关于多媒体学习的研究为视觉上有吸引力的情感设计对大学生情绪和学习成果的积极影响提供了证据。然而，这种影响在中学生中可能会有所不同。本研究的目的是考察视觉和行为情感设计对中学生情绪、动机和认知成果的影响。在实验1中，50名参与者（年龄在13 - 15岁之间）被随机分配到两种条件之一：视觉积极情感设计（色彩丰富且拟人化设计）和视觉中性情感设计（无色且无拟人化设计）。在实验2中，173名参与者（年龄在13 - 16岁之间）被随机分配到由两个因素创建的四种条件之一：视觉情感设计（积极与中性）和行为情感设计（积极与中性）。行为积极情感设计允许学习者与学习材料互动，而行为中性情感设计只允许学习者观看学习视频。结果表明，视觉上有吸引力的设计和行为上交互式的设计（视觉积极情感设计和行为积极情感设计）都对学习者的积极情绪有积极影响。将视觉积极情感设计与行为积极情感设计相结合可以促进学习表现。
