READIT! A Text Presentation Application for the Macintosh

Abstract

READIT! is a text presentation application for use on the Macintosh computer. It presents a pre-specified segment of text in the window and records the amount of time spent on the window. Progress through the text consists of viewing a sequence of windows, each displaying one segment of text. Segments may be viewed in a forward direction or in a backward direction. A complete trace of the readers progress through the text if kept. From the trace, we can reconstruct the order in which segments were read and how much time was spent reading each. A series of data treatment applications perform compute rate and process time measures and prepare data tables from which various summary statistics may be computed. In addition to READIT!, the MacWrite or MSWord word processing applications are necessary.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 28, 1988
Accession Number
ADA204695

Entities

People

  • Elizabeth Saul
  • Mike Pohl
  • Susan R. Goldman

Organizations

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Conversion
  • Data Science
  • Fungi
  • Hard Copy
  • Information Science
  • Keyboards
  • Naval Training
  • Personality
  • Recognition
  • Security
  • Sequences
  • Word Processors

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Explosive Engineering.