Effect of character size and lighting on legibility of electronic papers

Displays

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 10-17

  Lee, Der Song ^a   Shieh, Kong King ^b   Jeng, Shie Chang ^c   Shen, I Hsuan ^d  

^a ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^d CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cholesteric liquid crystal display; Electronic paper displays; Electrophoretic display; Legibility; Letter search task

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LUMINANCE; SEARCH ENGINES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ELECTRONIC PAPER DISPLAYS; ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY; ILLUMINANCE; LEGIBILITY;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 36249030032     PISSN: 01419382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.displa.2007.06.007     Document Type: Article

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