Only Page readers tended to locate boundary-zone sentences more accurately than central-zone sentences¶
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q3 i? The presentation-by-zone interaction was marginal (p = 0.11); only with Page were boundary-zone sentences located more accurately than central-zone ones. → Annie Piolat 1997
Evidence¶
Annie Piolat 1997¶
Annie Piolat, Jean-Yves Roussey and Olivier Thunin. (1997). Effects of screen presentation on text reading and revising. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. https://doi.org/10.1006/ijhc.1997.0145
q3 · i? · causal · r2
Experiment 1 analysis of pointing accuracy by sentence zone (boundary vs. central). The interaction was marginal, F(1, 68) = 2.55, p = 0.11, and the Page simple effect did not reach significance (p = 0.12).
"it was only with Page that the sentences in the boundary zones were located more accurately than those in the central zones (6.95 vs. 8.40;F(1, 68) = 2.44, p = 0.12, see Table 2)"
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Readers locate sentences more accurately after reading a text in page-by-page presentation than in scrolling presentation
- The effect of page-break response cues on locating accuracy depends on the presentation mode read: they help Page readers and hurt Scroll readers
- Page readers tended to include more details in their summaries than Scroll readers (a marginal result, p = .056), while recall of main ideas did not differ significantly — related
- Reading time did not differ between Page and Scroll, though Page readers tended to backtrack more — related
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Only Page readers tended to locate boundary-zone sentences more accurately than central-zone sentences |
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Only Page readers tended to locate boundary-zone sentences more accurately than central-zone sentences |
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1997 |
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