The effects of font type and size on the legibility and reading time of online text by older adults
CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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This study explored dual-sensory user interface designs that meet the requirements of elderly people. Eight subjects with conventional mouse and the Windows Positioning System interface processing strategies were conducted the experimental tasks where five types of applications were evaluated in different font sizes. The analysis illustrates that for the conventional mouse the difference of response time of each font size of target texts is significant by ANOVA to the five font sizes 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16. However, the difference between large font sizes of 14 and 16 was not significant except the result between font sizes of 10 and 16. But for the WPS, there is no difference of response time among the five font sizes. It showed that the effect of aural information of target texts can benefit user from computer manipulation.