부산대학교 도서관

We report the results of two experiments intended to study the effect of text format (compact, structured, logigramme) on the visual browsing of the instructions, the realisation of the actions and their memorising. For a same duration of realisation of the task, one often notes that more the structuring of the text increases more the acquisition of visual information decreases. This suggests that the format of the procedural text can reinforce the perception of the causal structure of the problem. However, the results obtained on the level of the acquisition of information vary according to the problem to solve and the results concerning the recall of the instructions do not show any effect of text format.