Exploring the effect of layout on reading from screen

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1375, Issue , 1998, Pages 294-304

  Dyson, Mary C ^a   Kipping, Gary J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; TYPESETTING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

APPLIED RESEARCH; DESIGN DECISIONS; LEGIBILITY OF TEXT;

RASTERIZATION;

EID: 84957697298     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/BFb0053278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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