Readers locate sentences more accurately after reading a text in page-by-page presentation than in scrolling presentation¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 1997 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Page readers located test sentences with significantly higher accuracy than Scroll readers (mean distance in lines 7.68 vs. 10.56). → 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, a controlled lab experiment in which 54 undergraduates read a 574-word expository text in Page or Scroll mode and then pointed to sentence locations. The article reports "a significantly higher degree of accuracy than Scroll" with F(1, 68) = 15.92, p < 0.001.

"Page allowed participants to locate test sentences with a significantly higher degree of accuracy than Scroll (mean distance in lines: 7.68vs. 10.56;F(l, 68) = 15.92, p < 0.001)."

Discussion¶

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