creators_name: Rahman, Tarjin creators_name: Muter, Paul type: journalp datestamp: 1999-09-06 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:20 metadata_visibility: show title: Designing an interface to optimize reading with small display windows ispublished: pub subjects: appl-cog-psy subjects: cog-psy full_text_status: public keywords: reading displays RSVP text abstract: The extent of electronic presentation of text in small display windows is mushrooming. In the present paper, 4 ways of presenting text in a small display window were examined and compared with a normal page condition: rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP), RSVP with a completion meter, sentence-by-sentence presentation, and sentence-by-sentence presentation with a completion meter. Dependent measures were reading efficiency (speed and comprehension) and preference. For designers of hardware or software with small display windows, the results suggest the following: (a) Though RSVP is disliked by readers, the present methods of allowing self-pacing and regressions in RSVP are efficient and feasible, unlike earlier tested methods; (b) slower reading in RSVP should be achieved by increasing pauses between sentences or by repeating sentences, not by decreasing the presentation rate within a sentence; (c) completion meters do not interfere with performance and are usually preferred; (d) the space-saving sentence-by-sentence format is as efficient and as preferred as the normal page format. date: 1999-03 date_type: published publication: Human Factors volume: 41 number: 1 pagerange: 106-117 refereed: TRUE citation: Rahman, Tarjin and Muter, Paul (1999) Designing an interface to optimize reading with small display windows. [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/832/1/RandM99.htm