• DocumentCode
    2166276
  • Title

    What is the effect of position for VDT dynamic/static displays on users´ reading comprehension?

  • Author

    An-Hsiang Wang ; Kwo-Whei Lee ; Yuan-Chang Hu

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Labor Studies, National Chung Cheng Univ., Chia-Yi
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    5-7 July 2006
  • Firstpage
    835
  • Lastpage
    838
  • Abstract
    The study investigated the effects of position (upper, below, right-hand, and left-hand side of the screen) for VDT dynamic display and other factors including speed (150, 200, 250, and 300 wpm), display type of dynamic information (leading, flash and RSVP), and polarity combination of dynamic/static (black-on-white/black-on-white, white-on-black/white-on-black, black-on-white/white-on-black, and white-on-black/black-on-white) on subjects´ comprehension for reading static and dynamic display information. The result of this research showed that position and type of dynamic information had no significant effect on subjects´ comprehension for dynamic and static information. Polarity combination and speed also had no significant effect on subjects´ comprehension for static information; however, the two factors had significant effects on subjects´ comprehension for dynamic information. When display speed was set at 200 wpm, subjects´ comprehension was better than with at speed settings. When the dynamic/static display was set to be the same polarity combination (black-on-white/black-on-white), subjects´ performance was better than other polarity combinations
  • Keywords
    computer displays; ergonomics; human factors; interactive terminals; VDT dynamic display; VDT static display; dynamic information; polarity combination; static information; user reading comprehension; Displays; Hospitals; Industrial engineering; Radiology; Technology management; Velocity measurement; VDT; comprehension.; dynamic display;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Visualization, 2006. IV 2006. Tenth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    London, England
  • ISSN
    1550-6037
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2602-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IV.2006.133
  • Filename
    1648357