Skimming electronic newspaper headlines: A study of typeface, point size, screen resolution, and monitor size

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 685-696

  Kingery, David ^a,b   Furuta, Richard ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WORD PROCESSING;

ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPER HEADLINES;

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING;

EID: 0031236112     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(97)00025-3     Document Type: Article

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