A few years ago, psychologists at Columbia's Center for Research on Environmental Decisions showed students one of two computer presentations about melting glaciers.
Notwithstanding, many instructors still rely on traditional teaching methods which include the use of chalkboard, handouts, and computer presentations that are often filled with many words and few visual elements.
In 2003, the psychologist Ian Skurnik and several of his colleagues asked senior citizens to sit through a computer presentation of a series of health warnings that were randomly identified as either true or false — for example, "Aspirin destroys tooth enamel" (true) or "Corn chips contain twice as much fat as potato chips" (false).
I looked in on a number of whizzy computer screen presentations, but as an old-school, seat-of-the pants pilot, I want to look at the sky, stars, cloudscapes, contrails and the Earth dancing around me.
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The development and application of computer technologies have allowed presentation support systems to be realized for a variety of purposes.
Yet despite its power, HTML has flaws, the most obvious being an inability to make distinctions between the presentation of computer data and the data itself.
The products -- in various stages of research, development, government approval and commercial deployment -- are an effort by the Boeing Company and its suppliers that is mostly meant to squeeze out the remaining bits of uncertainty in the cockpit, bringing the precision of computer navigation and data presentation to an industry that already has highly reliable engines and aircraft structures.
France Télécom found itself having to rush out part of its earnings report for the first half of 2001 a week ahead of schedule today, after a draft version of a computer slide presentation about the results was e-mailed to some analysts on Wednesday.
Topics include: fundamental strategies of information design, evaluating evidence used in presentation, statistical data, business, scientific, legal, financial presentations, complexity and clarity, multi-media, internet, and websites, credibility of presentations, and design of computer interfaces and manuals.
