ReadWorks Helps Mitigate the Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis Our partner ReadWorks provides 1.2 million K-12 teachers and 17 million students with content, curricular supports, and digital tools designed to improve teacher instruction and student achievement in reading comprehension—all free of charge. Today, they announced their commitment “to equity in access for all students,…
A Discussion About Eye Tracking and the Potential to Advance Readability Research Readability Matters recently Zoomed with Alexandra Papoutsaki, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pomona College. We learned more about Alexandra’s research, her development of webcam-based eye tracking, and how it can advance readability research. Tell us more about…
Can webcam eye tracking facilitate readability research? At the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2016, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Patsorn Sangkloy, James Laskey, Nediyana Daskalova, Jeff Huang, and James Hays introduced “WebGazer: Scalable Webcam Eye Tracking Using User Interactions.” The paper detailed their research and development of WebGazer, a new approach to browser-based…
What does Spaghetti Sauce have to do with Readability? On National Spaghetti Day (Jan 4), we remember best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell’s TED talk, “Choice, Happiness, and Spaghetti Sauce.” Malcolm covers the food industry’s pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce—and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice. Gladwell explains that Howard Moskowitz “has…
Showcasing Projects with Great Promise for Future Sustainability and Impact Today President and Founder Marc Pollick released a tour of the highlights of The Giving Back Fund’s work in 2020. The Giving Back Fund is a national non-profit organization with a global reach that facilitates philanthropic giving by providing consulting, management, and administrative services…
Santa Clara University EMBA Students Collaborate with the Tech-For-Good Nonprofit Readability Matters Since 1851, Santa Clara University (SCU) has been home to generations of students committed to innovating with a mission. This year is no different as Executive MBA students from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University (SCU) collaborated with the…
Creating a Go-to-Market Approach for Social Innovation Marjorie Jordan, Founder of Readability Matters, presented to the Go to Market class in the Executive MBA program at the University of Denver (DU). She shared experiences from her career at Hewlett Packard Company and explained how her work in high tech was foundational in the formation of…
Readability for All: Improving Literacy & Engagement through Enhanced Readability Webinar for Adult Education Professionals The EdTech Center at World Education invited Adobe and Readability Matters to deliver a webinar on improving readability for their audience of adult education professionals. Hosts Jen Vanek and Victoria Neff of the EdTEch Center brought together more than…
More Detail on the 2018 Tech Proof of Concept Test with Adobe In his Adobe MAX 2020 readability presentation, Document Cloud Entrepreneur in Residence, Rick Treitman shared further information about a 2018 Proof of Concept test. As reported, Readability Matters Founders approached Adobe to share Readability insights. Moving from a one-format-fits-all paradigm to one…
A New Personalized Reading Paradigm Better Readability for All Readers Young and Old, Strong and Struggling Readability was on the agenda at software giant Adobe’s annual MAX conference this year. CEO Shantanu Narayen kicked off the conference by announcing over 500,000 people had registered for the virtual event. Rick Treitman, Entrepreneur in Residence, Adobe,…