SerifsslowRSVPreadingatverysmallsizes,butdont分析.docVIP

Serifs slow RSVP reading at very small sizes, but don’t matter at larger sizes Submission to Symposium session “Legibility and Usability Issues for Text Displays”;  Robert A. Morris, Kathy Aquilante, Charles Bigelow, and Dean Yager3 During Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, readers can read sans-serif type about 20% faster at very small sizes. This advantage disappears at larger sizes. The study was done with fonts specially designed to control typeface parameters other than the serifs. The results suggest that rendering serifs at small sizes may be counterproductive.Keywords: Reading, Serifs, Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, RSVP Robert A. MorrisDepartment of Computer ScienceUMASS-Boston100 Morrissey BlvdBoston, MA 02125ram@cs.umb.eduphone 617-287-6466fax: 617-287-6499 Kathy AquilanteDepartment of Vision SciencesSUNY College of Optometry33 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036aquilante@mail.sunyopt.eduphone: 212-970-5152Charles BigelowBigelow Holmes Inc. 710 21st Street Santa Monica, CA 90402 email: bandh@usinter.nettel: (310) 260-8580 fax: (310) 260-8680 Dean YagerDepartment of Vision SciencesSUNY College of Optometry33 West 42nd StreetNew York, NY 10036dyager@mail.sunyopt.eduphone: 212-780-5141 fax: 212-780-5158  In Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP), words are presented rapidly at a fixed location on a video display. This reading without eye-motion supports speeds up to 3-4 times faster than normal, Rubin et al. (1992) In addition, RSVP facilitates reading on limited screen real-estate, e.g. on small displays or on large displays by low-vision readers who require very large type (Rubin et al. (1994)). There is a long history of the impact of font differences on reading, beginning with many studies of Patterson and Tinker summarized in Tinker (1963). These works generally found little difference in legibility among typefaces with normal reading methods, and most carefully controlled studies since then are in agreement w