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”This book is magical!”: exploring emergent readers’ preferences and wishes for storytelling tools

open access: yesNordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference, 2022
Emergent readers are young children who are beginning their journey towards literacy; they enjoy shared reading both at school and at home, and maybe they are already able to read and write their own names.
Sveva Valguarnera, M. Landoni
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

Accelerating Adult Readers with Typeface: A Study of Individual Preferences and Effectiveness

Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020
Information overload is the challenge of the modern era and text the medium. Every adult reader would benefit from faster reading, provided they could retain comprehension. The present work explores the reading speed gains possible solely by manipulating
S. Wallace   +4 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Design and Evaluation of an Automatic Text Simplification Prototype with Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Readers

open access: yesInternational ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Research has observed benefits from providing lexical and syntactic approaches to Automatic Text Simplification (ATS) to Deaf and Hard-of-hearing (DHH) readers.
Oliver Alonzo   +5 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

On the Origins of Readers' Outcome Preferences

Discourse Processes, 2016
Narratives often provide readers with opportunities to encode their preferences for particular outcomes. Our project examines some origins of such outcome preferences. For example, past literature suggests that readers tend to prefer positive outcomes for “good” characters and negative outcomes for “bad” characters.
R. Gerrig   +2 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

How Newsmen and Readers Perceive Each Others' Story Preferences

open access: yes, 1970
Q analysis shows that among newsmen desk-bound editors are least able to predict subscriber preferences; but on the whole newsmen and readers show high agreement in their preferences.
L. Atwood
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Assessing User Preferences for E-Readers and Tablets

Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 2013
Librarians purchased 12 e-readers and six tablets to provide patrons the opportunity to experiment with the latest mobile technologies. After several train-the-trainer sessions, librarians shared device information with the broader health sciences community. Devices were cataloged and made available for a two-week checkout.
Jean-Yves Leber   +4 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

The divergent online news preferences of journalists and readers

Communications of the ACM, 2010
Reading between the lines of the thematic gap between the supply and demand of online news.
P. Boczkowski
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

A reader-writer queue with reader preference

Queueing Systems, 1994
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Media Plurality and the Intensity of Readers' Political Preferences

Journal of Media Economics, 2013
In this article, the author studied the effect of the intensity of readers' political preferences on the news firms' incentives to choose between a single- and a multi-ideology strategy (i.e., media uniformity vs. media plurality). The author shows that alternative formalizations of the intensity of readers' preferences alter the equilibrium level of ...
A. J. Pires
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Reader preferences and behavior on Wikipedia

Proceedings of the 25th ACM conference on Hypertext and social media, 2014
Wikipedia is a collaboratively-edited online encyclopaedia that relies on thousands of editors to both contribute articles and maintain their quality. Over the last years, research has extensively investigated this group of users while another group of Wikipedia users, the readers, their preferences and their behavior have not been much studied.
Janette Lehmann   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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