How form and structure of Chinese characters affect eye movement control
This study investigated the correlations between the form features and legibility of Chinese characters by employing the eye tracking method in two experiments: Experiment 1 examined factors affecting Chinese character legibility with character modules and identified the correlations between charact...
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| description | This study investigated the correlations between the form features and legibility of Chinese characters by employing the eye tracking method in two experiments: Experiment 1 examined factors affecting Chinese character legibility with character modules and identified the correlations between character form and legibility of crossing strokes; and Experiment 2 examined the effect of crossing strokes on subjective complicacy perception in both Chinese characters and English letters. This study determined that enclosed Chinese characters affect subjective complicacy perception and reduce saccadic amplitude. In addition, greater number of stroke crossings produced higher subjective complicacy perceived for both Chinese characters and English letters. The results of this study serve as a reference for predicting Chinese character legibility and assessing type design superiority. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-79320f6caecd43dbb720c318026596212025-08-20T02:27:54ZengMDPI AGJournal of Eye Movement Research1995-86922015-10-018310.16910/jemr.8.3.3How form and structure of Chinese characters affect eye movement controlMin-Yuan Ma0Hsien-Chih Chuang1National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan (R.O.C)National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan (R.O.C)This study investigated the correlations between the form features and legibility of Chinese characters by employing the eye tracking method in two experiments: Experiment 1 examined factors affecting Chinese character legibility with character modules and identified the correlations between character form and legibility of crossing strokes; and Experiment 2 examined the effect of crossing strokes on subjective complicacy perception in both Chinese characters and English letters. This study determined that enclosed Chinese characters affect subjective complicacy perception and reduce saccadic amplitude. In addition, greater number of stroke crossings produced higher subjective complicacy perceived for both Chinese characters and English letters. The results of this study serve as a reference for predicting Chinese character legibility and assessing type design superiority.https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2405eye movementChinese characterlegibilitycomplicacystroke crossings |
| spellingShingle | Min-Yuan Ma Hsien-Chih Chuang How form and structure of Chinese characters affect eye movement control Journal of Eye Movement Research eye movement Chinese character legibility complicacy stroke crossings |
| title | How form and structure of Chinese characters affect eye movement control |
| title_full | How form and structure of Chinese characters affect eye movement control |
| title_fullStr | How form and structure of Chinese characters affect eye movement control |
| title_full_unstemmed | How form and structure of Chinese characters affect eye movement control |
| title_short | How form and structure of Chinese characters affect eye movement control |
| title_sort | how form and structure of chinese characters affect eye movement control |
| topic | eye movement Chinese character legibility complicacy stroke crossings |
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