Yet another post of mine basically stolen from slashdot...
There's a research article from a researcher in the Typography group at Microsoft. The article is pretty long, and some would say too long to be worth reading, but this is the type of stuff I eat up, so I enjoyed reading it. There's a nice summary of a lot of research and experimentation, which is cool.
I started to try to pull neat tidbits out of the article, since I'm sure that most people will not click through, or even if they do, they will probably not read the whole article, but there's too much cool stuff that I'd have to skip over because it's not all bite site pieces of information. He goes into a little background on the different theories on word recognition, from word shape recognition to serial letter recognition, and finally the currently accepted parallel letter recognition.
There's some cool stuff you can learn about how fast we read with different distractions (all uppercase letters, mispellings, etc.), how our eyes move when we read, and even a little on neural networks for word recognition. It's cool stuff.
Added bonus: The author is a Longhorn.
Posted by ramk at September 3, 2004 11:20 AM