Psychology of computer use: XV. Effects of display format on reading text from a CRT.
Comprehension of brief computer-displayed text was investigated. Question-answering ability was affected by both rate of text presentation and text difficulty. More importantly, though, text presented one word at a time was comprehended better than text presented in multiword units or chunks. Results are discussed with regard to optimizing reading from computer displays.
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University of Kansas.
D001288:Attention; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D003199:Computer Systems; D003626:Data Display; D006801:Humans; D008838:Microcomputers; D011932:Reading