e vs. p: with EEG data!
Oct. 22nd, 2011 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitouthttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111020094337.htm
"The co-initiator and cooperating partner institution of the study is MVB Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels GmbH, operator of the e-book platform libreka!", for those who are inclined to worry about the influence of sponsor bias on study outcomes.
"This study provides us with a scientific basis for dispelling the widespread misconception that reading from a screen has negative effects," explains Füssel. "There is no (reading) culture clash – whether it is analog or digital, reading remains the most important cultural technology."
Fuessel is chair of the Gutenberg-Institute of Book Studies and spokesperson for the Media Convergence Research Unit at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. If this were in the US and I understood the institutions in question a little better, I'd probably be doing some snarking -- but it isn't and I don't so you're on your own.
I'm a little skeptical, because I find reading on an active screen to be tiring in a way that I do not find e-ink to be. OTOH, I probably spend _more_ hours consuming and producing information in an active screen than I do on an e-ink screen. Make of that what you will.
It's cool that someone did this, even if one might be skeptical of the certainty displayed in the conclusions.
"The co-initiator and cooperating partner institution of the study is MVB Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels GmbH, operator of the e-book platform libreka!", for those who are inclined to worry about the influence of sponsor bias on study outcomes.
"This study provides us with a scientific basis for dispelling the widespread misconception that reading from a screen has negative effects," explains Füssel. "There is no (reading) culture clash – whether it is analog or digital, reading remains the most important cultural technology."
Fuessel is chair of the Gutenberg-Institute of Book Studies and spokesperson for the Media Convergence Research Unit at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. If this were in the US and I understood the institutions in question a little better, I'd probably be doing some snarking -- but it isn't and I don't so you're on your own.
I'm a little skeptical, because I find reading on an active screen to be tiring in a way that I do not find e-ink to be. OTOH, I probably spend _more_ hours consuming and producing information in an active screen than I do on an e-ink screen. Make of that what you will.
It's cool that someone did this, even if one might be skeptical of the certainty displayed in the conclusions.