Benefits of illustrations and videos for technical documentations

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Highlights：

• Technical documentations with text and illustrations shorten solution times.

• Technical documentations with text and illustrations reduce the number of errors.

• Documentations with illustrations or videos reach better subjective evaluations.

• There are influences of gender on objective and subjective measures.

摘要

•Technical documentations with text and illustrations shorten solution times.•Technical documentations with text and illustrations reduce the number of errors.•Documentations with illustrations or videos reach better subjective evaluations.•There are influences of gender on objective and subjective measures.

论文关键词：Technical documentation,Learning with text and illustration,Learning with video

论文评审过程：Available online 19 December 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.11.095