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Logical arguments of tracking reading
I’ve been thinking about eyetracking as a useful indicator of reading, and how other indicators may be used to track user activity on the web. Many eyetracking studies presume to know when reading occurs via movement patterns. Even accepting the eye-mind hypothesis, Jakob Nielsen reminds us, “By itself, eyetracking can do one thing and one [...]
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Foveal vision in reading
As I work my way backwards from eye tracking to the correlation between eye movement and cognition (i.e. to answer the question, how do we know that eye movement means one is reading?) I’ve begun to delve into basic research on eye movements in reading, most recently accessing the influential work “Eye Fixations and Cognitive [...]
Posted in IPT 692R - Research in DE & Blended, PhD Coursework Tagged deresearch, foveal, reading, vision 2 Comments
Weekend Notes: Eyetracking and Determining Reading
This weeks’ readings took me deeper into eye tracking of reading, as I sought to verify that current research on eye tracking of web site usage is not necessarily related to or relevant for reading research. Nielsen and Pernice’s 2010 book, “Eyetracking Web Usability” is already a classic for web designers, and though Nielsen’s work [...]
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Notes on Discussion Reading Tracking Proposal Draft
These are my notes from the in-class discussion of my project proposal first draft. The general conclusion is that the problem needs to be articulated from a methodological gap. An alternative approach is to write this as a stand-alone literature review of reading strategy tracking methods. — Clarity: reading problem or methodological problem? are gaps [...]
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10-Article Analysis: Rational, theory, questions
I’ve analyzed ten articles on the topic of reading, hypertext, and cognitive load, looking at the articles’ rational, theoretical framework, and research questions. That document is available on Google Docs to invited users. I found this particular task useful in identifying not only the structure of the articles, but also to narrow focus to these [...]
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Levy Article on Reading and Attention
Levy, D. M. (1997). I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: Reading and Attention in Digital Libraries. Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Digital libraries (pp. 202-211). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This paper explores the changing view of attention and reading, contextualizing it in modern technology developments. “…a particular constellation of technology developments and [...]
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DE Research Week 4 Readings
Garrison, D. R. (1997). Computer conferencing: the post-industrial age of distance education. Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 12(2), 3-11. Recognizes the power of computer conferencing –especially asynchronous online forums–as compared to live, synchronous conversation. This distinguishes a new era of distance education, a post-industrial era. “…computer conferences may be globally accessible but are not [...]
Reading in Hypertext Ecologies Draft 1
Based on the exploratory research questions I drafted last week, I’ve composed the following 1p “proposal” on describing reading in hypertext ecologies: Contemporary learners operate in increasingly hypertext-rich online environments, yet research on cognitive load and performance suggests that hypertext may have a negative impact on tasks where focused attention is important, such as reading. [...]
Challenges for online reading researchers