Be happy and effective? Incorporating emotional design into multimedia learning in elementary science education
Incorporating both warm colours and anthropomorphism as emotional design elements yielded the most favourable impact in designing positive learning materials. Integrating emotional design approaches to both learning materials and pedagogical agents could be conducive to happy and effective learning, showing the importance of holistic approaches to emotional design in educational settings.
Authors
- Shaoying Gong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2062-6188)
- Yueru Lang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8442-0662)
- Qingtang Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9410-9856)
- Yanan Wu
- Wei Deng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8826-7882)
Institutions
- Central China Normal University (CN)
- Shenzhen Baoan High School Group (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- British Journal of Educational Psychology
- Published
- 2025-02-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12747
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.12
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Humanities and Social Science Fund of Ministry of Education of China