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An assessment is made of the work of design from the perspective of communicability and usability in multimedia aimed at E-learning, mainly through the off-line interactive systems (commercials) and on-line (open software). The method used is accompanied by a series of heuristic results along time to stress the validity or not of some of the design components. Besides, a novel strategy of organizing the textual content is presented for teenagers and the young: the truncated inverted pyramid. Finally, those quality attributes are mentioned that are related to the dynamic and static means, at the moment of heuristically assessing the communicability of a hypermedia system which has as its main goal college education.
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Cipolla-Ficarra, F.V., Cipolla-Ficarra, M., Vera, P.M. (2009). Communicability for Virtual Learning: Evaluation. In: Jacko, J.A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Interacting in Various Application Domains. HCI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5613. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02583-9_8
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