Effect of Computer Screen Back and Font Color on Chinese Reading Comprehension

Author

Xue-Min Zhang ; Hua Shu ; Tian Ran

Author_Institution

Beijing Normal Univ., Beijing

fYear

2007

fDate

11-13 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

409

Lastpage

414

Abstract

The present study, by moving window paradigm, investigated the effects of three background colors (black, white, and blue) matched with font colors (five font colors in each background color level) on Chinese text reading. The results indicated that the reading efficiency was better when background-font color matched in the following pairs: white-black, white-blue, blue-yellow and blue-white. And the reading efficiency was lower when black back-color matched with white, red, green, purple, and white matched with red. Finally, the implications of these results on human computer interface design were discussed.

Keywords

colour displays; colour graphics; computer displays; natural language processing; screens (display); text analysis; Chinese reading comprehension; Chinese text reading; background font color; computer screen back color; computer screen font color; human computer interface design; moving window paradigm; Brightness; Computer interfaces; Human computer interaction; Human factors; Optical design; Personal digital assistants; Pervasive computing; Portable computers; Psychology; Software design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Pervasive Computing, 2007. IPC. The 2007 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jeju City

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3006-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPC.2007.40

Filename

4438465