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caeli · 3429 days ago · link · · parent · post: We’ve adapted our reading habits to fit our screens, but at a cost.
This has a lot of interesting implications for eyetracking research as well. Eyetracking studies basically only have participants reading on a screen, so that distance from the text is controlled, amount of text they see at one time is controlled, etc etc. While this is probably representative of how people read on screens, it might not be representative of other types of reading based on the research presented in this article. I wonder if anyone has done an eyetracking study with identical sentences on paper vs. a screen and looked for differences in scanpaths, first-pass times, and regressions.