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The Effects of Different-Length Assignments on Classroom Deportment and Academic Performance
Improving Eye Movement Control in Young Readers
The objective of our study is to design and evaluate an oculomotor reading
aid for beginning readers. The aid consists of an eye-tracking device and a computer
program that gives real-time feedback in the form of a game to the subject about their
fixation position on words. An experimental study was conducted with 8-year-old children.
We evaluated the effectiveness of the aid for each child by comparing the landing
site distributions before and after playing the game. We found that the peak of the
landing site distribution moved towards the optimal viewing position (OVP) for word
identification after playing the game. We also determined that training had a positive
effect on gaze duration, on the mean and distribution of number of fixations per word,
and on the percentage of words with refixations in the majority of subjects