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Influences of Comics Expertise and Comics Types in Comics Reading

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• Volume 5,Issue 2, March 2018

Year:

2018

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

Graphical Literacy, Conjoint Processing of Text and Picture, Eye Tracking, Adult, Cognitive Process

Authors:

• Zhao, Fang
• Mahrt, Nina

Journal:

IJIRES

Volume:

5

Number:

2

Pages:

218-224

Month:

March

ISSN:

2349-5219

BibTex:

@article{1226, author = "Fang Zhao and Nina Mahrt", abstract = "Comics have been increasingly used in reading materials, e.g. newspaper, textbook, and signs. Despite its potential benefits, little is discussed in the merit of comics expertise in comics reading. This study, therefore, aims to investigate how experienced vs. inexperienced comics readers comprehend comics. It investigates additionally whether comics types (picture vs. text-picture comics) influence reading patterns. Experienced (N = 12) and inexperienced comics readers (N = 12) comprehended 2 picture comics and 2 text-picture comics firstly with an eye tracker and then answered comprehension questions on papers. Results showed that experienced readers had shorter fixations than inexperienced readers in comics reading. All readers reported that picture comics were more difficult to read than text-picture comics. Inexperienced comic readers showed better comprehension scores in text-picture comics than picture comics possibly due to low graphical literacy", issn = "23495219", journal = "IJIRES", keywords = "Graphical Literacy, Conjoint Processing of Text and Picture, Eye Tracking, Adult, Cognitive Process", month = "March", note = "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/", number = "2", pages = "218-224", title = "{I}nfluences of {C}omics {E}xpertise and {C}omics {T}ypes in {C}omics {R}eading", volume = "5", year = "2018", }

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Abstract:

Comics have been increasingly used in reading materials, e.g. newspaper, textbook, and signs. Despite its potential benefits, little is discussed in the merit of comics expertise in comics reading. This study, therefore, aims to investigate how experienced vs. inexperienced comics readers comprehend comics. It investigates additionally whether comics types (picture vs. text-picture comics) influence reading patterns. Experienced (N = 12) and inexperienced comics readers (N = 12) comprehended 2 picture comics and 2 text-picture comics firstly with an eye tracker and then answered comprehension questions on papers. Results showed that experienced readers had shorter fixations than inexperienced readers in comics reading. All readers reported that picture comics were more difficult to read than text-picture comics. Inexperienced comic readers showed better comprehension scores in text-picture comics than picture comics possibly due to low graphical literacy

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