Colour Perceptual Organisation and its Influence on Reading Speed

Kucera, Matej (2024) Colour Perceptual Organisation and its Influence on Reading Speed. Master's Internship Report, Computing Science.

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Abstract

We attempt to replicate results from existing work which finds that reading speed can be increased by introducing various coloring schemes to the text. We use a new experimental setup that allows taking multiple measurements and calculating average reading speed from the resulting data. We replicate the conditions from previous work and perform the experiment on four participants. We find that the results do not match our expectations. The results have no statistical significance. However, the expected effect is not observed when comparing reading speeds for the same person. We hypothesize that the difference may be caused by the experimental setup or other differences in experimental procedure. The new way of measuring reading speed may have an impact, as well as some minor differences in controlled variables to the experiment we attempted to replicate. We suggest future experiments that can help establish the reason our experiment was unable to achieve the expected results.

Item Type:	Thesis (Master's Internship Report)
Supervisor name:	Tursun, O.T. and Kosinka, J. and Bruin, S.
Degree programme:	Computing Science
Thesis type:	Master's Internship Report
Language:	English
Date Deposited:	24 Jun 2024 14:55
Last Modified:	24 Jun 2024 14:55
URI:	https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/32780

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