The Effects of Subpixel Addressing on Users' Performance and Preferences During Reading-Related Tasks

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 81-101

  Gugerty, Leo ^a   Tyrrell, Richard ^a   Edmonds, Andy ^a   Aten, Thomas R ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Aptima Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Displays; Font rendering; Human Factors; Readability; Subpixel addressing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907306815     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1024083.1024084     Document Type: Article

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