Saccadic scrolling: Speed reading strategy based on natural eye movements

Howard Farnoush Freema Moshtael-Oskui; Antje Nuthmann; Ian Underwood; Baljean Dhillon

doi:10.1109/IHMSC.2016.120

Saccadic scrolling: Speed reading strategy based on natural eye movements

Howard Farnoush Freema Moshtael-Oskui, Antje Nuthmann, Ian Underwood, Baljean Dhillon

School of Engineering & Physical Sciences

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Abstract

We present a novel method of text presentation, saccadic scrolling, that translates average eye movement behavior into the movement of a line of text. It seeks to emulate the success of techniques such as rapid serial visual presentation in boosting reading speed, whilst maintaining the familiar line of text appearance. The parameters of saccadic scrolling are described and then tested in a reading speed study with 30 participants. Reading with saccadic scrolling was found to enable all participants to read faster than with continuous scrolling, on average by a factor of 5 times, and almost half to read faster than with rapid serial visual presentation, with a statistically equal average.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2016 8th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Machine Systems and Cybernetics (IHMSC)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	596-600
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509007684
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IHMSC.2016.120
Publication status	Published - 15 Dec 2016
Event	8th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Machine Systems and Cybernetics 2016 - Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China Duration: 11 Sept 2016 → 12 Sept 2016

Conference

Conference	8th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Machine Systems and Cybernetics 2016
Country/Territory	China
City	Hangzhou, Zhejiang
Period	11/09/16 → 12/09/16

Keywords

Eye movements
Rapid serial visual presentation
Reading
Scrolling text

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Control and Systems Engineering
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Science Applications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction
Signal Processing

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Moshtael-Oskui, HFF, Nuthmann, A, Underwood, I & Dhillon, B 2016, Saccadic scrolling: Speed reading strategy based on natural eye movements. in 2016 8th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Machine Systems and Cybernetics (IHMSC). IEEE, pp. 596-600, 8th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Machine Systems and Cybernetics 2016, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, 11/09/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/IHMSC.2016.120

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