Effects of typographic variables on eye-movement measures in reading Chinese from a screen

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 797-808

  Yen, Nai Shing ^a   Tsai, Jie Li ^a   Chen, Pei Ling ^a   Lin, Hsuan Yu ^a   Chen, Arbee L P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Character size; Character spacing; Eye movement measures; Font type

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER SIZE; CHARACTER SPACING; CHINESE CHARACTERS; COMPUTER DISPLAY; EYE-MOVEMENT MEASURES; FIXATION DURATION; FONT TYPE; READING SPEED;

PIXELS;

EYE MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84862916967     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2010.523900     Document Type: Article

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