EN ISO 14915-3:2002

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Application of this part of ISO 14915
  4.1 Intended user groups
  4.2 Applying the recommendations
  4.3 Reporting conformance to this part of ISO
       14915
5 General guidelines for media selection and
  combination
  5.1 General
  5.2 Supporting user tasks
  5.3 Supporting communication goals
  5.4 Ensuring compatibility with the user's
       understanding
  5.5 Selecting media appropriate for the user's
       characteristics
  5.6 Supporting user's preferences
  5.7 Considering the context of use
  5.8 Using redundancy for critical information
  5.9 Avoiding conflicting perceptual channels
  5.10 Avoiding semantic conflicts
  5.11 Designing for simplicity
  5.12 Combining media for different viewpoints
  5.13 Choosing media combinations to elaborate information
  5.14 Guarding against degradation
  5.15 Previewing media selections
  5.16 Using static media for important messages
6 Media selection for information types
  6.1 General
  6.2 Consider information types
  6.3 Consider multiple-information types
  6.4 Selecting and combining media
       6.4.1 Physical information
       6.4.2 Conceptual information
       6.4.3 Descriptive information
       6.4.4 Spatial information
       6.4.5 Value information
       6.4.6 Relationship information
       6.4.7 Discrete action information
       6.4.8 Continuous action information
       6.4.9 Event information
       6.4.10 State information
       6.4.11 Casual information
       6.4.12 Procedural information
7 Media integration
  7.1 General
  7.2 Design issues
  7.3 Media integration guidelines
       7.3.1 General
       7.3.2 Advance organizers
       7.3.3 Synchronized, related media
       7.3.4 Separating audio content sources
       7.3.5 Avoiding interference in audio media
       7.3.6 Limiting speech interruptions
       7.3.7 Integrating non-realistic images with
              realistic images
       7.3.8 Use of captions with images
8 Directing users' attention
  8.1 General
  8.2 Direct-contact points for key thematic links
  8.3 Direct-contact points for linked components
  8.4 Indirect-contact points
  8.5 Sequence of contact points to connect a thread of
       topics
  8.6 Guidelines for contact points between media pairs
       8.6.1 General
       8.6.2 Source medium: realistic audio
       8.6.3 Source medium: non-realistic audio
       8.6.4 Source medium: speech
       8.6.5 Source medium: still image
       8.6.6 Source medium: text
       8.6.7 Source medium: moving image
Annex A (informative) Decision trees for classification of
        types
Annex B (informative) Guidelines for media-combination pairs
Annex C (informative) Examples of media-combination patterns
Annex D (informative) Design issues and cognitive background
Bibliography

ISO 14915-3:2002 gives recommendations for, and guidance on, the design, selection and combination of interactive user interfaces that integrate and synchronize different media. It addresses user interfaces for applications that incorporate, integrate and synchronize different media. This includes static media such as text, graphics, images; and dynamic media such as audio, animation, video or media related to other sensory modalities. Detailed design issues within a single medium (e.g. the graphical design of an animation sequence) are only addressed as far as they imply ergonomic consequences for the user.