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The effects of reading goals in hypertext reading

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Aristidis Protopsaltis,

Vassiliki BoukiAuthors Info & Claims

SIGDOC '06: Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication

Pages 29 - 34

https://doi.org/10.1145/1166324.1166332

Published: 18 October 2006 Publication History

Abstract

The present study examined the influence of different reading goals on reading in a hypertext environment. The study focused on text based electronic documents. The study was an independent samples design experiment with three different conditions. Ninety participants read the hypertext allocated into three different conditions and then, all answered the same set of questions. The results show that reading goals did not influence reading times, comprehension scores, and amount of visited links. The data also revealed two factors that influence hyperlink selection: coherence, and location

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Yu CMiller RMynatt EFitzpatrick GHudson SEdwards KRodden T(2010)Enhancing web page readability for non-native readersProceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/1753326.1753709(2523-2532)Online publication date: 10-Apr-2010
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Protopsaltis ABouki VO'Neill HAparicio MCosta CProtopsaltis A(2008)Gender and information processing in electronic ageProceedings of the 26th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication10.1145/1456536.1456563(131-138)Online publication date: 22-Sep-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1456536.1456563

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