Both the time and the correctness are captured by the server. The participants have a practice session with four tables indicated in Table 1 before the competition starts. Table 2 shows the paired t-test results. Of the five hypotheses, three are confirmed by the study. In general, the performance of baseline conditions are significantly higher than the performance at animation conditions.
Animation does affect one's information seeking performance.
It is also true that animation has different impacts on different level tasks. The more difficult the task, the less distracting the animation, and the higher the performance score. The color plays an important role in affecting one's performance. There is no difference found for similarity or distance. Further study is needed on similarity impact.