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      Text spacing considerations for children’s on-screen reading

      Vanderschantz, Nicholas
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      Vanderschantz, N. (2008). Text spacing considerations for children’s on-screen reading. In J. Luca & E. Weippl (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2008 (pp. 1609-1616). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/5950
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      This investigation seeks to uncover the insights of three integral and inter-related participants in the creation and use of on-screen reading material for children’s learning. This is an effort to discover what factors are perceived to influence children’s comprehension. Through a design-analyse-refine methodology this researcher discusses a series of typographical considerations relating to space which bear further empirical investigation in the literature. This methodology involved discussion of ideas garnered from four experts. The results of each iteration of the experiment influenced further refinement of the ideas until suitable conclusions were able to be developed by the writer. Testing materials in this experiment adjusted variables for visual separation, including margins, separation of image and type, as well as line spacing, letter spacing and word spacing.
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      2008
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      Conference Contribution
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      AACE
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