The effect of age and font size on reading text on handheld computers

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3585 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 253-266

  Darroch, Iain ^a   Goodman, Joy ^a   Brewster, Stephen ^a   Gray, Phil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; HAND HELD COMPUTERS; MOBILE COMPUTING; USER INTERFACES;

READABILITY; READING PERFORMANCE; READING SPEED; TEXT READING;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 33646001436     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11555261_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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