The effect of page-break response cues on locating accuracy depends on the presentation mode read: they help Page readers and hurt Scroll readers¶
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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causalr2·q3
Currency · newest study 1997 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
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q3 i? Text presentation by response system interaction was significant; page-break cues improved locating only for Page readers. → Annie Piolat 1997
q3 i? For Scroll readers, page-break response cues significantly decreased locating accuracy. → Annie Piolat 1997 (2)
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 simple-effects analysis of the presentation-by-response-system interaction, which the article reports as significant (F(1, 68) = 13.36, p < 0.001). Page readers located sentences better with page-break cues, "6.28 vs 9.08".
"The page-break system (which reproduced the spatial cues that marked the pages defined in Page) resulted in an improvement in locating accuracy only when the text had been read with Page (mean distance in lines: 6.28 vs 9.08;F(l, 68) = 7.5, p < 0.01)."
Annie Piolat 1997 (2)¶
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 simple effect for Scroll readers: response-box page breaks the readers never saw during reading disrupted locating, mean distance "11.80vs. 9.32" lines, F(1, 68) = 5.91, p < 0.05.
"With Scroll, locating accuracy was significantly poorer in the page-break system, where there were spatial cues to which the readers did not have access during the reading task (mean distance in lines: 11.80vs. 9.32;F(1, 68) = 5.91, p < 0.05)."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Only Page readers tended to locate boundary-zone sentences more accurately than central-zone sentences
- Readers locate sentences more accurately after reading a text in page-by-page presentation than in scrolling presentation
- Browsing term lists (selection mode) helps searchers who do not know the exact query term — related
- 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
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page-break-response-cues-interaction |
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The effect of page-break response cues on locating accuracy depends on the presentation mode read: they help Page readers and hurt Scroll readers |
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The effect of page-break response cues on locating accuracy depends on the presentation mode read: they help Page readers and hurt Scroll readers |
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moderate |
newest_evidence |
1997 |
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2 — annie-piolat-1997, annie-piolat-1997-2 |
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