On the portability of computer-generated presentations: The effect of text-background color combinations on text legibility

Human Factors

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 821-833

  Greco, Massimo ^a   Stucchi, Natale ^b   Zavagno, Daniele ^b   Marino, Barbara ^c  

^a Liceo Artistico A Modigliani ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PROJECTION SCREENS; TERBIUM ALLOYS;

BACKGROUND COLORS; COLOR COMBINATIONS; COMPUTER SCREENS; LEGIBILITY OF TEXTS; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS; TEXT LEGIBILITIES; WIDE SCREENS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MULTIMEDIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; COLOR; COMPREHENSION; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; DATA DISPLAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57749169024     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872008X354156     Document Type: Article

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