title: Museum of Perception and Cognition website: using JavaScript to increase interactivity in Web-based presentations.
abstract: The present paper introduces the Museum of Perception and Cognition website. This site offers an interactive introduction to cognitive psychology via a JavaScript-based illustration of optical illusions and a Java-based presentation of experimental paradigms. Its content and utilization as lecture support for 1st-year students at Free University of Brussels is described. This paper also endeavors to share experience we gained in Web-based lecture materials development. It introduces the Web lecturer with JavaScript features and utilization and provides him/her with a description of reusable JavaScript routines downloadable from our site that relate to more engaging, interactive, and effective Web-based presentation of course materials.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. mlange@ulb.ac.be
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lange
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D010465:Perception; D014584:User-Computer Interface