visual word group presentation

6 July 2007

a novel form of presenting text data on electronic media by displaying the text as a series of cascading phrases. this presentation technique has been proven to result in faster reading with greater comprehension.

[link: liveink.com & readingonline.org]

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I looked at this in more detail. The technology is quite interesting, and the empirical results they report in a paper are quite promising. But their software is crap, merely a proof-of-concept demo.

Harlan . 7 July 2007

Very cool! I've actually done this manually when trying to decipher legal text. It really does help a lot with comprehension. Perhaps because it offloads some of the chunking processes from your brain and onto the text...

Daniel McLaren . 7 July 2007

At last, proof that lisp is easier to read than any other language ;p

Channing Walton . 8 July 2007

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