An eye tracking study of how font size and type influence online reading

Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction, BCS HCI 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 15-18

  Beymer, David ^a   Russell, Daniel ^b   Orton, Peter ^c  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Font size; Font type; Reading; Typography

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES; EYE-TRACKING STUDIES; FIXATION DURATION; FONT SIZE; FONT TYPE; ONLINE READINGS; READING; TYPOGRAPHY;

EYE TRACKING;

EID: 79955164864     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2008.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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