scholarly journals The Impact of ‘Violating the Heterosexual Norm’ on Reading Speed and Accuracy

Psychology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 02 (05) ◽  
pp. 456-459
Author(s):  
Joel Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
Reading Speed ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Speed And Accuracy

Immersive reading in virtual and augmented reality environment

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei-Luen Patrick Rau ◽  
Jian Zheng ◽  
Zhi Guo
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Liquid Crystal Display ◽  
Reading Speed ◽  
Reading Performance ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Head Mounted Displays ◽  
Virtual And Augmented Reality ◽  
Display Quality ◽  
Speed And Accuracy

Purpose This study aims to investigate “immersive reading,” which occurs when individuals read text while in a virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) environment. Design/methodology/approach In Experiment 1, 64 participants read text passages and answered multiple-choice questions in VR and AR head-mounted displays (HMDs) compared with doing the same task on liquid crystal display (LCD). In Experiment 2, 31 participants performed the same reading tasks but with two VR HMDs of different display quality. Findings Compared with reading on LCD as the baseline, participants reading in VR and AR HMDs got 82% (VR) and 88% (AR) of the information accurately. Participants tended to respond more accurately and faster, though not statistically significant, with the VR HMD of higher pixel density in the speed-reading task. Originality/value The authors observed the speed and accuracy of reading in VR and AR environments, compared with the reading speed and accuracy on an LCD monitor. The authors also compared the reading performance on two VR HMDs that differed in display quality but were otherwise similar in every way.

Experiment 3

2017 ◽  
pp. 222-246
Author(s):  
Azza A Abubaker ◽  
Joan Lu
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movement ◽  
Reading Speed ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Line Length ◽  
Reading Level ◽  
Reading Process ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Speed And Accuracy

Although experimental studies have shown a strong impact of text layout on the legibility of e- text, many digital texts appearing in eBook or the Internet use different designs, so that there is no straightforward answer in the literature over which one to follow when designing e- material. Therefore, in this chapter we shall focus on the text layout, particularly the influence of line length. This experiment is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the factor of line length by studying its effect on reading speed and accuracy using various columns [one column and two columns] with each page having the same amount of information. The second part tests a new approach which basically assumes that by using different colours for the first and last word of each line, it will improve students' reading level. This hypothesis was based on pervious findings over the difficulty of being able to immediately locate the following line (Chan and Lee 2005). In addition, this approach was based on explanation of the eye movement which, in the reading process, does not scan a line but stops for about ¼ of a second before jumping to new place such as at the end of the line when the eye goes back to the beginning of the new line.

Effects of Speech Intelligibility, Morphological Confusions, and Redundancy on Task Performance

1996 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 308-312
Author(s):  
Leslie A. Whitaker ◽  
Mike McCloskey ◽  
Leslie J. Peters
Keyword(s):  
Task Performance ◽  
Speech Intelligibility ◽  
Message Content ◽  
Hearing Impairments ◽  
Subjective Workload ◽  
Degraded Speech ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Speed And Accuracy ◽  
Communication Equipment

Speech is a vital means of communication for completing many tasks. The speech intelligibility needed for successful communication may be degraded by ambient noise levels, poor communication equipment, or hearing impairments. The present research tested the impact of speech message content on task performance under conditions of degraded speech intelligibility. Sixteen subjects participated in a laboratory experiment using on a board game. Message redundancy, morphological confusions, and speech intelligibility were varied. Task performance and subjective workload were measured. Morphological confusions adversely affected performance (both speed and accuracy) and subjective workload (SWAT) to an increasingly greater extent as speech intelligibility decreased. High redundancy improved the accuracy of performance and subjective workload when speech intelligibility decreased; however, high redundant messages were longer and required more time to process than low redundant messages. These results extend earlier work which measured the impact of morphological confusions and redundancy on speech intelligibility itself to the measurement of their impact on performance. Implications for the development of message content guidelines and their impact on performance are discussed.

scholarly journals Impact of speed reading training on reading speeds and comprehension skills of secondary school students

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-193
Author(s):  
Erhan Durukan
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Reading Speed ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Process Data ◽  
School Students ◽  
Speed Reading ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
8Th Grade ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this research is to study the impact of speed reading training on reading speeds and comprehension skills of secondary school students. The research has been conducted on 40 students receiving education at the level of secondary school 8th grade in Trabzon province. Experimental pattern with single group pretest–posttest was applied in the study. First of all, reading speeds and comprehension levels of the students were determined during the research, and then 20 hours of speed reading training was provided to the students every other day for 5 days. Before applying the last test after the training, 2 weeks of time was given to the students in order to repeat the exercises. Reading speed and comprehension levels of the students were detected with two separate texts and reading comprehension questions related to these texts at the start and finish of the process. Data were analysed with dependent/independent groups t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient on SPSS 20. Keywords: Comprehension level, reading speed, reading training, secondary school.

scholarly journals The Impact of Timed Reading Activity on Iranian EFL learners Reading Speed, Comprehension, and Attitudes at Intermediate Level

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Molood Mahdizadeh ◽  
Naeemeh Aminafshar
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Reading Speed ◽  
Comprehension Skill ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Reading Activity ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Experimental Group

Learning English is one of the most important activities around the world. Learning a language includes a number of skills and sub-skills. Reading is one of the skills of language learning, and it is the focus of the present study. Comprehension and speed are two main parts of the reading skill. The main aim of this study is to investigate the effects of timed reading activity on speed, comprehension and the attitudes of English learners regarding the use of timed reading activity. To this aim, a pre-test, a post-test and a questionnaire were used to gather data. 40 intermediate language learners participated in this study, and they were divided into two groups; experimental and control groups. Timed reading activity was employed as the treatment for the experimental group. The collected data revealed that the treatment had effect on the reading speed of the participants in the experimental group. Moreover, the data indicated that the timed reading activity was not highly effective to develop the reading comprehension skill of the language learners. And the results of the questionnaire indicated that a large number of the participants had positive attitude toward the timed reading activity.

scholarly journals Features of game activity of basketball students

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-12
Author(s):  
L. Anikeenko
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Technical Training ◽  
Basketball Players ◽  
Game Activity ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Competitive Efficiency ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Constant Improvement ◽  
Speed And Accuracy ◽  
Selection Of

The article covers the issue of playing activities in basketball. The value of speed and accuracy of basketball players' game actions is revealed. The dependence of basketball players' game efficiency on indicators of their psychophysical development of their organism and the need to study the influence of morphofunctional and psychophysiological indicators of basketball players on the speed and accuracy of game actions are substantiated. In sports games, technical training is of great importance, which includes a large number of different techniques. Basketball activity is based on individual and group technical actions of athletes, the main of which are throws to the basket, passes, driving, interception, selection, selection of the ball, etc. The ability to perform these actions quickly and accurately is the main condition for a successful game of basketball players. Game efficiency depends on the spatio-temporal characteristics of game actions, which, in turn, are determined by the peculiarities of the psychophysical development of the body of athletes. One of the main ways to achieve high sportsmanship is the constant improvement of the technique of the chosen sport, the study of its structure, components and psychophysiological basis. Therefore, the study of the parameters of the game activities of students who play basketball, which includes analysis of the impact of morphofunctional and psychophysiological indicators of the body on competitive efficiency, is relevant in today's conditions of intensification of sports training.

scholarly journals Impact of Timed Reading on Comprehension and Speed: A Study on Turkish EFL Learners

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
Kiymet Selin Armagan ◽  
Zubeyde Sinem Genc
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Reading Fluency ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Reading Speed ◽  
Reading Process ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Good And Poor Readers ◽  
L1 And L2 ◽  
The Impact

Reading process has always been one of the most significant and debatable topics in the area of learning and teaching languages. Reading process in mother tongue (L1) and in a foreign language (L2), the association of these processes, variables affecting reading and the qualities of good and poor readers in L1 and L2 have been investigated greatly. Developments in the area of reading in L1 have frequently raised questions about reading in L2 and a variety of theories have been proposed to account for the relationship between L1 and L2 reading. One of the most fundamental questions raised is related to “reading fluency”. Even though the importance of reading fluency in both L1 and L2 has been emphasized, studies on fluency in L2 are still scarce if we think about its more complicated and multifaceted nature when compared to reading fluency in L1. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of timed reading practices on the comprehension level and reading speed of learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Turkish context. A total of 74 students were the participants, who were randomly divided into two groups: experimental and control group. Experimental group received timed reading activities while the control group did not. Pre-test was applied on the 1st week and post-test was applied on the 7th week. Results illustrated that timed reading intervention positively affected EFL students’ comprehension level and reading speed. Implications for teaching reading in a foreign language were discussed in relation to a number of important details in the findings.

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