The effects of font type and size on the legibility and reading time of online text by older adults

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 175-176

  Bernard, Michael ^a   Liao, Chia Hui ^a   Mills, Melissa ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Font size; Font type; Legibility; Older adults; Online typography; Reading time; World wide web

Indexed keywords

FONT SIZE; FONT TYPE; LEGIBILITY; OLDER ADULTS; ONLINE TYPOGRAPHY; READING TIME;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 77954018785     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/634067.634173     Document Type: Conference Paper

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2. Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2000. Available at http://encarta.msn.com© 1997-2000 Microsoft Corp. All fights reserved.