An Eye-Tracking Study of Sketch Processing: Evidence From Russian.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates the online process of reading and analyzing of sketchnotes (visual notes containing a handwritten text and drawings) on Russian language material. Using the eye-tracking method, we compared the processing of different types of sketchnotes ["path" (trajectory), linear, and radial] and the processing of a verbal text. Biographies of Russian writers were used as the material. In a preliminary experiment, we asked 89 college students to read the biographies and to evaluate each text or sketch using five scales (from -2 to +2). The best example for each of three formats of sketchnotes and a verbal text was chosen. In the main experiment, 21 secondary school students examined four different biographies in four different formats (three sketchnotes and a verbal text), answe

SUBMITTER: Petrova TE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7061926 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature