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SUMMARY:Vision for reading - Professor Arnold Wilkins\, University of Esse
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CONTACT:John Mollon
DESCRIPTION:We read with a succession of rapid horizontal movements of the
  eyes and after each movement the eyes have to be realigned. The relativel
 y slow re-alignment takes longer when the word that is being read is verti
 cally striped. In consequence\, striped words such as mum take longer to r
 ead than words such as dad that are not spatially periodic. Spatially peri
 odic fonts such as Times are often read more slowly for similar reasons\, 
 but their spatial periodicity depends upon a few common trigrams that can 
 be redesigned. The current design of text for children is demonstrably sub
 -optimal: reading speed\, comprehension speed and reading age can all be i
 ncreased by simple changes in text size and design. Fortunately it may now
  be possible to guide the design of text using mathematical principles tha
 t increase legibility.
LOCATION:Kenneth Craik Room\, Craik-Marshall Building\, Downing Site
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