Speeder Reader!

luag · 03-09-2006, 12:55 PM

I'm confused as where should i post this lol

http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/09/s...eading-skills/

"Who among us doesn't enjoy spending a lazy afternoon by sliding into the drivers seat, wrapping one hand around the wheel, the other around the stick, and settling in for an exhilarating speed reading session? Well believe it or not, former Xerox PARCer Maribeth Back has found that using controls analogous to driving allows people to read on-screen text more than twice as fast as they could through traditional left-to-right scanning. Back presented the results of trials involving her reading-cum-driving simulator, the Speeder Reader, at this week's O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference, where she described how streaming text to a fixed spot on the screen allows the reader to eliminate "white space" and ingest words more efficiently. A person "driving" the Java-powered Speeder Reader uses the gas pedal to adjust the pace of the word flow, the steering wheel to change "text lanes" (streaming sources) and the stick and several other buttons for more minor tweaks. Now this is a trend we like to see -- car sims for reading class, DDR action in gym -- pretty soon, kids may be able to play video games all day long in school just like they do all night at home."

Bob Russell · 03-09-2006, 02:32 PM

Funny! But I guess if you don't drive a stick shift you just won't be able to read as fast!

03-09-2006, 12:55 PM	#1
luag Zealot Posts: 144 Karma: 30 Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Jakarta, Indonesia Device: Onyx Boox 60	Speeder Reader! I'm confused as where should i post this lol http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/09/s...eading-skills/ "Who among us doesn't enjoy spending a lazy afternoon by sliding into the drivers seat, wrapping one hand around the wheel, the other around the stick, and settling in for an exhilarating speed reading session? Well believe it or not, former Xerox PARCer Maribeth Back has found that using controls analogous to driving allows people to read on-screen text more than twice as fast as they could through traditional left-to-right scanning. Back presented the results of trials involving her reading-cum-driving simulator, the Speeder Reader, at this week's O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference, where she described how streaming text to a fixed spot on the screen allows the reader to eliminate "white space" and ingest words more efficiently. A person "driving" the Java-powered Speeder Reader uses the gas pedal to adjust the pace of the word flow, the steering wheel to change "text lanes" (streaming sources) and the stick and several other buttons for more minor tweaks. Now this is a trend we like to see -- car sims for reading class, DDR action in gym -- pretty soon, kids may be able to play video games all day long in school just like they do all night at home."

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03-09-2006, 02:32 PM	#2
Bob Russell Recovering Gadget Addict Posts: 5,381 Karma: 676161 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Device: iPad	Funny! But I guess if you don't drive a stick shift you just won't be able to read as fast!