NDLI: QuikScan: Facilitating reading and information navigation through innovative document formatting

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Quan Zhou Farkas, D.K.
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA (Quan Zhou) \|\| University of Washington, USA (Farkas, D.K.)
Abstract	QuikScan is an innovative document format aimed at facilitating reading and information navigation in documents. It employs multiple within-document summaries formatted as numbered list items to summarize the gist of each section of a document. The presence of the summaries, with a fine level of granularity, enables readers to skim for the superordinate ideas of each section and locate particular items of information quickly and efficiently. This paper focuses on an empirical study of information navigation with QuikScan. Forty participants completed timed information navigating tasks using either a QuikScan or control version of a document with conventional formatting. This study demonstrates intriguing and important findings. Those who read QuikScan were able to locate the superordinate content items significantly faster with a significantly higher accuracy rate. However, QuikScan readers did not perform better on items of lesser importance than those who read the control version.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	7
File Size	261032
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424443574
DOI	10.1109/IPCC.2009.5208671
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-07-19
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Navigation Testing Natural languages Probes Time measurement Conducting materials Educational institutions Employment information navigation QuikScan document format summaries
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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