Results from yesterday

Yesterday’s  work with ‘John’ (not his name)  was very interesting. With his agreement I shall simply report the data we obtained.

This data was collected using a binocular eyetracker.

Silent reading of basic text on a default computer screen taken gave a reading speed of 49.6 words per minute.

Font size 12, background 255/255/255   Dell Inspiron laptop. Factory setting background full luminance.

Characters per fixation……… 1.4

Words per fixation…………….0.24

Silent reading on his optimised computer screen gave a reading speed of 183 words per minute

Font size 12, background settings… Red 43  Green 161  Blue 162

( I could not get the font size correct when I copied this onto the blog. Sorry.)

Characters per fixation…….6.0

Words per fixation…………..1.0

After reading on his optimised background for 20 seconds these performance figures had changed to the following.

Reading speed had increased to  216 words per minute.

Characters per fixation…..7.48

Words per fixation…………1.3