Effects of word spacing on reading Chinese text from a video display terminal

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-92

  Hsu, Sheng Hsiung ^a   Huang, Kuo Chen ^b  

^a Section 4   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMPUTER TERMINAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RANDOMIZATION; READING; SEMANTICS; TIME;

ADULT; CHINA; COMPUTER TERMINALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; READING; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034137956     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2000.90.1.81     Document Type: Article

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