"Live ink" - a breakthrough in the presentation of information technology
The results of research conducted by Walker Reading Technologies led to the emergence of a new technology for processing digital information, which allows to speed up and improve its perception when reading. The technology is presented as “visual text formatting syntax” ( VSTF) . Its essence is a special transformation of ordinary blocks of text into cascading blocks with color highlighting of certain phrases, which allows readers to better perceive the grammatical structure of information .
VSTF takes into account the syntactic structure of the text, the difficulty of word forms, models for the use of punctuation marks and produces formatting that optimizes the perception and linguistic processing of the content. Complex syntactic structures are combined into nested sequences of phrases that visually resemble a hierarchy . The reader’s attention is focused on the position of the phrase in the structure of the text and the relation of the nested phrase to the “parent”. The algorithm determines the boundaries of the most important formulations in sentences in order to use these boundaries for building cascade blocks, taking into account the context of other words and phrases adjacent to these formulations.
The VSTF method is designed to help with both visual and syntactic processing when reading. As you know, the eye when reading can capture from 9 to 15 characters. Therefore, the human eye sees the text as if “through a straw” (see figure). Every time we read a block of text, we force our brain to conduct a constant struggle “with extra characters” that cannot be perceived at the moment. The new method is designed to solve this problem. Places of plain text (for example, a paragraph) are converted to short lines (usually from 8 to 30 characters), which are read in one or two “spans” of the eye. The algorithm uses different models that define the width of each line.
Cascade parsing of the structure of the text was designed so that the reader simultaneously perceives phrases located below and above the currently readable segment of the text. The site http://liveink.com can be found with examples of formatting excerpts of text from a work of fiction, technical magazine and sports news (eng.). It will also be interesting to watch a flash-video demonstrating VSTF technology .
Randall Walker - CEO and co-founder of Walker Reading Technologies announced in New York at the Digital Book 2007 conference a Live lnk product targeted at various publishers to implement the VSTF method . His study (which is funded by the US Department of Education) shows that students who read textbooks converted using Live lnk improve their results in passing standard reading tests by 10–15%. The new method can also be used by online content providers.
The students of the college, where a new method was tested, showed an increase in the speed of reading the text of Internet pages and a noticeable improvement in its perception. And what is very important - reading the text, transformed but new technology reduces eye strain.
If the technology justifies the hopes placed on it, Live lnk could be a breakthrough in a qualitative change in people's perception of information from the monitor .
It is also noted that the presentation of information in a new format can be a good competitive advantage for online publishers and online media. It seems that the use of the VSTF method in information services of search engines will also positively affect their popularity. Users will enjoy the know-how designed to facilitate the reading of Internet pages, improve the perception of the text, while to a certain extent, protect their eyes from tension and fatigue.
Related Links:
1) International Reading Association - International Reading Association . The resource contains hundreds of articles about research in the field of reading.
2) http://www.reading.org/ - additional resource of the International Reading Association .
3) Walker Reading Technologies
4) VentureBeat - an online resource on venture investment and innovation
VSTF takes into account the syntactic structure of the text, the difficulty of word forms, models for the use of punctuation marks and produces formatting that optimizes the perception and linguistic processing of the content. Complex syntactic structures are combined into nested sequences of phrases that visually resemble a hierarchy . The reader’s attention is focused on the position of the phrase in the structure of the text and the relation of the nested phrase to the “parent”. The algorithm determines the boundaries of the most important formulations in sentences in order to use these boundaries for building cascade blocks, taking into account the context of other words and phrases adjacent to these formulations.
The VSTF method is designed to help with both visual and syntactic processing when reading. As you know, the eye when reading can capture from 9 to 15 characters. Therefore, the human eye sees the text as if “through a straw” (see figure). Every time we read a block of text, we force our brain to conduct a constant struggle “with extra characters” that cannot be perceived at the moment. The new method is designed to solve this problem. Places of plain text (for example, a paragraph) are converted to short lines (usually from 8 to 30 characters), which are read in one or two “spans” of the eye. The algorithm uses different models that define the width of each line.
Cascade parsing of the structure of the text was designed so that the reader simultaneously perceives phrases located below and above the currently readable segment of the text. The site http://liveink.com can be found with examples of formatting excerpts of text from a work of fiction, technical magazine and sports news (eng.). It will also be interesting to watch a flash-video demonstrating VSTF technology .
Randall Walker - CEO and co-founder of Walker Reading Technologies announced in New York at the Digital Book 2007 conference a Live lnk product targeted at various publishers to implement the VSTF method . His study (which is funded by the US Department of Education) shows that students who read textbooks converted using Live lnk improve their results in passing standard reading tests by 10–15%. The new method can also be used by online content providers.The students of the college, where a new method was tested, showed an increase in the speed of reading the text of Internet pages and a noticeable improvement in its perception. And what is very important - reading the text, transformed but new technology reduces eye strain.
If the technology justifies the hopes placed on it, Live lnk could be a breakthrough in a qualitative change in people's perception of information from the monitor .It is also noted that the presentation of information in a new format can be a good competitive advantage for online publishers and online media. It seems that the use of the VSTF method in information services of search engines will also positively affect their popularity. Users will enjoy the know-how designed to facilitate the reading of Internet pages, improve the perception of the text, while to a certain extent, protect their eyes from tension and fatigue.
Related Links:
1) International Reading Association - International Reading Association . The resource contains hundreds of articles about research in the field of reading.
2) http://www.reading.org/ - additional resource of the International Reading Association .
3) Walker Reading Technologies
4) VentureBeat - an online resource on venture investment and innovation
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