Table 1.
Findings and flaws of research into presentation software.
Table 2.
Participant demographics for Experiment 1.
Table 3.
Prior experience and pre-existing beliefs of Experiment 1 participants.
Table 4.
Descriptive and inferential statistics for Experiment 1 audience ratings.
Fig 1.
Experiment 1 audience ratings.
Audience members rated presentations on each dimension on a 5-level scale (1 = “not at all,” 5 = “extremely”). The figure shows session-level means from all available data, including those from sessions with two or four presentations.
Table 5.
Descriptive and inferential statistics for Experiment 1 audience rankings.
Fig 2.
Experiment 1 audience rankings.
Audience members ranked the presentations from best to worst, with lower ranks indicating better presentations. The figure shows session-level means from all available data, including those from sessions with two or four presentations.
Fig 3.
Experiment 1 audience omnibus judgments of effectiveness.
Note: Means shown from pre-survey items are calculated based on responses from all participants (as opposed to only those who had experience with all presentation formats).
Table 6.
Participant demographics for Experiment 2.
Table 7.
Prior experience and pre-existing beliefs of Experiment 2 participants.
Table 8.
Inferential statistics for Experiment 2 audience ratings.
Fig 4.
Experiment 2 audience ratings.
Note: rating dimensions are ordered by the magnitude of the difference between Prezi and the other presentation formats; for dimensions with no significant differences between presentation formats, only the overall mean is displayed.
Fig 5.
Experiment 2 decision outcomes for each presentation group.
Table 9.
Experiment 2 judgments of audiovisual attributes by presentation format.
Table 10.
Experiment 2 judgments of audiovisual attributes by decision outcome.