Multimedia Lab

Multimedia learning environments are often defined by the combined presentation of verbal and pictorial information sources. Regarding the efficiency of multimedia learning environments, research has generated many principles concerning the way verbal and pictorial information should be presented in order to best enable learning.
However, these principles themselves are often only superficially based on basic principles of cognition and perception of information processing.
Therefore, this lab seeks to take results originating from fundamental research and specific paradigms into account, to gain deeper insights into the processes involved in learning with multimedia.
The cube illustrates the research approach of the Multimedia lab: We systematically investigate which processes play a decisive role in multimedia learning and whether these same processes translate into different thematic domains. We achieve this by combining different methods, thematic domains and experimental variations.