Designing an interface to optimize reading with small display windows

Human Factors

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 106-117

  Rahman, Tarjin ^a   Muter, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER TERMINALS; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; READING; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0032915160     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872099779577264     Document Type: Article

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