Evaluating Readability on Mobile Devices

Öquist, G. 2006. Evaluating Readability on Mobile Devices. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Linguistica Upsaliensia 4. 80 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-554-6745-8. The thesis presents findings from five readability studies performed on mobile devices. The dynamic Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) format has been enhanced with regard to linguistic adaptation and segmentation as well as eye movement modeling. The novel formats have been evaluated against other common presentation formats including Paging, Scrolling, and Leading in latin-square balanced repeated-measurement studies with 12-16 subjects. Apart from monitoring Reading speed, Comprehension, and Task load (NASA-TLX), Eye movement tracking has been used to learn more about how the presentation formats affects