Impact of screen aspect ratio on reading electronic material

• Autores: Uroš Šošević, Lena Ðordevic, Miloš Milanović
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 29, no. Extra 3, 2013, págs. 602-609
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The major question addressed in this paper is influence of different screen aspect ratios on reading electronic material. In order toexamine differences, we performed a research that included two of most popular aspect ratios: 4:3 and 16:9. Both aspect ratios wererepresented in desktop and handheld variant. The research referred to engineering students as readers. Engineering students werevery interesting population for this research due to the fact that they spend most of their time reading electronic materials, duringtheir education. Logically, it is necessary to measure how effective this way of reading educational material is. The generalhypothesis of this study was that there is difference in usage of electronic reading material on screens with different aspect ratios,and that the current hype for widescreen displays is unjustified when it comes to reading electronic material. Reading time, amountof interactions and knowledge test scores were used as measures in experiment. Our results speak in favor of the hypothesis andsuggest why proposed screen aspect ratio is the most suitable for reading electronic materials.