"Textual Prosody" Can Change Impressions of Reading in People With Normal Hearing and Hearing Loss.

ABSTRACT: Recently, dynamic text presentation, such as scrolling text, has been widely used. Texts are often presented at constant timing and speed in conventional dynamic text presentation. However, dynamic text presentation enables visually presented texts to indicate timing information, such as prosody, and the texts might influence the impression of reading. In this paper, we examined this possibility by focusing on the temporal features of digital text in which texts are represented sequentially and with varying speed, duration, and timing. We call this "textual prosody." We used three types of textual prosody: "Recorded," "Shuffled," and "Constant." Recorded prosody is the reproduction of a reader's reading with pauses and varying speed that simulates talking. Shuffled prosody randomly shuffle

SUBMITTER: Uetsuki M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7773827 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature