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E-Readers and Visual Fatigue
The mass digitization of books is changing the way information is created, disseminated and displayed. Electronic book readers (e-readers) generally refer to two main display technologies: the electronic ink (E-ink) and the liquid crystal display (LCD). Both technologies have advantages and disadvan...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3873942/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24386252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083676 |
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author | Benedetto, Simone Drai-Zerbib, Véronique Pedrotti, Marco Tissier, Geoffrey Baccino, Thierry |
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description | The mass digitization of books is changing the way information is created, disseminated and displayed. Electronic book readers (e-readers) generally refer to two main display technologies: the electronic ink (E-ink) and the liquid crystal display (LCD). Both technologies have advantages and disadvantages, but the question whether one or the other triggers less visual fatigue is still open. The aim of the present research was to study the effects of the display technology on visual fatigue. To this end, participants performed a longitudinal study in which two last generation e-readers (LCD, E-ink) and paper book were tested in three different prolonged reading sessions separated by - on average - ten days. Results from both objective (Blinks per second) and subjective (Visual Fatigue Scale) measures suggested that reading on the LCD (Kindle Fire HD) triggers higher visual fatigue with respect to both the E-ink (Kindle Paperwhite) and the paper book. The absence of differences between E-ink and paper suggests that, concerning visual fatigue, the E-ink is indeed very similar to the paper. |
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spelling | pubmed-38739422014-01-02 E-Readers and Visual Fatigue Benedetto, Simone Drai-Zerbib, Véronique Pedrotti, Marco Tissier, Geoffrey Baccino, Thierry PLoS One Research Article The mass digitization of books is changing the way information is created, disseminated and displayed. Electronic book readers (e-readers) generally refer to two main display technologies: the electronic ink (E-ink) and the liquid crystal display (LCD). Both technologies have advantages and disadvantages, but the question whether one or the other triggers less visual fatigue is still open. The aim of the present research was to study the effects of the display technology on visual fatigue. To this end, participants performed a longitudinal study in which two last generation e-readers (LCD, E-ink) and paper book were tested in three different prolonged reading sessions separated by - on average - ten days. Results from both objective (Blinks per second) and subjective (Visual Fatigue Scale) measures suggested that reading on the LCD (Kindle Fire HD) triggers higher visual fatigue with respect to both the E-ink (Kindle Paperwhite) and the paper book. The absence of differences between E-ink and paper suggests that, concerning visual fatigue, the E-ink is indeed very similar to the paper. Public Library of Science 2013-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3873942/ /pubmed/24386252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083676 Text en © 2013 Benedetto et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Benedetto, Simone Drai-Zerbib, Véronique Pedrotti, Marco Tissier, Geoffrey Baccino, Thierry E-Readers and Visual Fatigue |
title | E-Readers and Visual Fatigue |
title_full | E-Readers and Visual Fatigue |
title_fullStr | E-Readers and Visual Fatigue |
title_full_unstemmed | E-Readers and Visual Fatigue |
title_short | E-Readers and Visual Fatigue |
title_sort | e-readers and visual fatigue |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3873942/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24386252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083676 |
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