VSS 2024
May 17-22 | St. Pete Beach, Florida
The Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society encompasses the broad field of vision science drawing on a range of disciplines, including visual psychophysics, visual neuroscience, computational vision and visual cognition. The central goal is to understand how vision works and is used.
This year the conference includes poster presentations on three readability research papers and a new opportunity for cross-disciplinary researchers to gather and share insights in a community working session. Session outputs will include a mindmap for future research directions and guidelines.
Readability Poster Presentations
Sunday, May 19, 2024, 2:45 – 6:45 pm
A psychophysical approach for investigating format readability online
Kurtuluş Mert Küçük, Md Mamunur Rashid, Veronica Penkova, Amy Giroux, Nilsu Atılgan, Shaun Wallace, Sam Berlow, Anna Kosovicheva, Stephanie Day, Ben D. Sawyer
Light or Bold? Navigating Font Weights and Grades for Enhanced Readability
Md Mamunur Rashid, Nilsu Atilgan, Hilary Palmén, Jonathan Dobres, Sam M Berlow, Mert Küçük, Ben D. Sawyer
Typeface Matters: Psychophysical Insights into Readability Across Different Reading Tasks
Nilsu Atilgan, Jonathan Dobres, Md Mamunur Rashid, Sam M Berlow, Ben D. Sawyer
The Vision Science of Digital Readability Community-Building Workshop
Friday, May 1, 2024, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Readability Consortium is hosting the upcoming Readability Research Community Meeting at the annual VSS conference.
An exciting community of scientific inquiry has emerged around digital reading interfaces, recognizing the pervasive role of on-screen text in our daily lives. Diverse academic disciplines including vision science, machine learning, computer human interaction, and accessibility are increasingly focusing on understanding the mechanics of reading processes in digital environments. However, the decentralized nature of this work poses challenges for researchers seeking to navigate a broad landscape and stay informed about emerging trends and significant findings. The community meeting provides a rare opportunity to work face-to-face. Collectively the group will create guidelines that emphasize the important current challenges and possible future directions in readability research that will help researchers ask more directed questions and develop better experimental designs.
Please refer to the Readability Workshop website for the most up-to-date information.
Organizers
Dr. Ben D. Sawyer, University of Central Florida
Dr. Steven Clapp, University of Central Florida
Dr. Nilsu Atilgan, The Readability Consortium
Additional Speakers
Dr. Shaun Wallace (University of Rhode Island, USA)
Dr. Hilary Palmén (Google LLC, USA)
Dr. Ben Wolfe (University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada)
Dr. Denis Pelli (New York University, USA)
Dr. Minjung Kim (Meta Reality Labs, USA)
Dr. Yingzi Xiong (John Hopkins University, USA)
About the Vision Sciences Society: The Vision Sciences Society is a nonprofit membership organization of scientists who are interested in the functional aspects of vision. VSS was founded in 2001 with the main purpose of holding an annual meeting that brings together in one forum scientists from the broad range of disciplines that contribute to vision science, including visual psychophysics, neuroscience, computational vision and cognitive psychology. The scientific content of the meetings reflects the breadth of topics in modern vision science, from visual coding to perception, recognition and the visual control of action, as well as the recent development of new methodologies from cognitive psychology, computer vision and neuroimaging.
