Junko Ichino
Naofumi Kanayama
ABSTRACT
Large displays are becoming prevalent, but little research has been conducted to quantify their effect on an individual user. We present an experiment in which users' reading comprehension of text displayed on physically large and small displays are compared through three types of tasks. By adjusting the viewing distance for both displays, we maintained a constant visual angle. This experiment demonstrated that differences in display size did not affect users' performance in brief reading comprehension tasks, that is, both search tasks involving small units such as characters or words and comprehension tasks involving larger units such as sentences or paragraphs. We found a large difference between the outcome of this experiment relating to text media and the results of previous research, which showed that for picture and video media, large displays bias users toward an egocentric perspective and small displays bias them toward an exocentric perspective.
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- Can users read text on large displays?: Effects of Physical Display Size on Users' Reading Comprehension of Text
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