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  • drcongo
    Andy Beaumont on 2008-12-11
    This is a really interesting question.
  • kellie80
    Kellie 80 on 2008-05-23
    I wonder, with the exposure kids have to web content, if this impacts how they view a textbook page. If so, will they be "missing" sections because the textbook page is not designed for this type of eye pattern?
  • kellie80
    Kellie 80 on 2008-05-23
    This is a Google search page. As blogs & wikis become more & more prevalent, will that change reading patterns? And how much of our eye pattern is due to the limitations of .html?
  • kellie80
    Kellie 80 on 2008-05-23
    I know this is about designing a web page that is more conducive to readability, but what are implications for the novel? Do we need to make kids cognizant of how their eyes move while they read? Would that be a cognitive step in learning how to vary pace?
  • kellie80
    Kellie 80 on 2008-05-23
    And by extension, will we need to teach reading differently?

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  • willrich
    Will Richardson on 2006-08-06
    How eyes move across the Web page when reading.
  • john143
    John on 2006-08-11
    How eyes move across the Web page when reading.
  • chefranden
    Randen on 2006-08-22
    In our new eyetracking study, we recorded how 232 users looked at thousands of Web pages. We found that users' main reading behavior was fairly consistent across many different sites and tasks. This dominant reading pattern looks somewhat like an F and ha
  • apipkorn
    Pip on 2006-09-14
    Jakob Nielsen
  • christyinsdesign
    Christy Tucker on 2007-02-12
    Research in the patterns for how people read content on the web, with suggestions on how to design content to get information to users
  • jomcleay
    Jo McLeay on 2008-08-11
    This is great Simon, thanks for sharing

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