WebGazer: Scalable Webcam Eye Tracking Using User Interactions

WebGazer: Scalable Webcam Eye Tracking Using User Interactions

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…

VSS 2020, Shaun Wallace

Individual Differences in Font Preference & Effectiveness as Applied to Interlude Reading in the Digital Age

Can we Accelerate Adult Reading?   At the June 2020 virtual Vision Science Society conference, Shaun Wallace presented the results of a collaboration between Brown University, Adobe, and the University of Central Florida. The team studied the impact of fonts on reading effectiveness with the goal of investigating individuation compared to the universality of fonts…

The Great Typography Bake-Off

The Great Typography Bake-off

Study Measures the Differences in Glance-Based Legibility of Eight Sans-Serif Typefaces   In a paper published in Ergonomics, the International Journal of Research and Practice in Human Factors and Ergonomics, Sawyer, Dobres, Chahine and Reimer compared differences in glance-based legibility of eight sans-serif typefaces. Their research demonstrates that differences measured in milliseconds are significant in…

Base Font Effect on Reading Performance

Readability Changes Impact Reading Performance   Readability Matters advocates for the provision of a full set of Readability Features (including font choice, size, character spacing, character expansion, and line spacing.) Previous Readability Matters research has demonstrated significant numbers of readers benefit from the simple change to a clean round font, such as AvantGarde. Font matters…