From Adobe Readability Research Intern to Assistant Professor Shaun Wallace is a computer scientist passionate about making tech more human. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University and has been part of the Readability community since his internship with Adobe Research in 2019. After seeing the potential for personalized reading formats to significantly improve…
Readability Community of Practice @ MAX 2023 Readability Matters’ Kathy Crowley and Dr. Jen Vanek of World Education represented the Readability Community of Practice at Adobe MAX this week. It was a rare opportunity for Community of Practice members from Europe and across the US to meet face-to-face. Hosted by Adobe members Angie Bush…
The Rise of Customization We can customize our cars, our clothes, and even our food. But what about the things that have the potential to improve our performance? Our golf clubs and our running shoes are examples of things that can be customized to create these performance improvements. Just as eye doctors can make…
Students need the Features to Personalize their Text Formats Education is changing dramatically, requiring significantly more digital reading and learning. The shift to online learning, the increased availability of high-speed internet, and the rising demand for personalized learning are all contributing to record growth. In fact, the global EdTech market is expected to grow…
Lightning Learning with Susanne Nobles, Chief Academic Officer, ReadWorks Is it important that a student can increase her reading speed and comprehension by 33% when simple changes are made to her reading text format? Dr. Susanne Nobles says yes. Susanne joined cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Shannon Sheppard (Chapman University) and Dr. Sofie Beier (Royal…
Passion for Readability Work Leads ML Engineer to Adobe Research Readability Matters sat down with Tianyuan (Tian) Cai to discuss how his multidisciplinary experience led him to his position as a research engineer with Adobe Research. Tian is a problem-solver who uses his technical expertise and innovative thinking to create solutions for society’s complex…
Meet Readability Researchers and Learn the Latest at these Spring Conferences CHI 2023 April 23-28 | Hamburg, Germany | Hybrid https://chi2023.acm.org/ Readability Presentations and Papers: Digital Reading Rulers: Evaluating Inclusively Designed Rulers for Readers With Dyslexia and Without Aleena Gertrudes Niklaus, Tianyuan Chi, Shaun Wallace, Zoya Bylinskii More info THERIF: Themes for Readability…
Prosody in Music and in the Readability Research Lab Prosody is an important concept in oral reading and also in music. Meet Jocelyn Dueck, who works in the intersection of the two. Dr. Dueck, a pianist and an Assistant Professor of Collaborative Arts at Carnegie Mellon University, is an expert in prosody, “the music…
March is National Reading Month In honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday, March is designated as National Reading Month – a month to motivate Americans of all ages to read every day. Reading has many benefits, regardless of age. It is a critical component of education and also of professional development. Reading has immediate and…
Adobe is Creating Better Readability Readability Matters is grateful for our long-standing partnership with Adobe. Since our first meeting in 2017, Adobe’s Entrepreneur in Residence, Rick Treitman, has worked diligently to make better reading a reality for readers of PDF documents. Rick quickly saw the potential of improving reading proficiency through personalized reading formats…