Readingmate: The effect of the content stabilizing technique, font size, and interline spacing on the letter-counting task performance of treadmill runners

Human Factors

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1101-1111

  Kwon, Bum Chul ^a   Yi, Ji Soo ^a   Zhu, Yu ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

font size; head tracking; interline spacing; letter counting; reading performance; reading while running; ReadingMate; treadmill

Indexed keywords

FONT SIZE; HEAD TRACKING; INTERLINE SPACING; LETTER COUNTING; READING PERFORMANCE; READING WHILE RUNNING; READINGMATE;

ERGONOMICS; EXERCISE EQUIPMENT; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

SPORTING GOODS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EQUIPMENT; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; RUNNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; READING; RUNNING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890848583     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: 15478181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720813485089     Document Type: Article

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