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From: ebm@ibmarc.uucp (Eli Messinger)
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Subject: Re: Re: Meter Reading as Computer Literacy
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Date: 2 Feb 89 17:19:11 GMT
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Tom Maddow asks...

> ... is there any evidence that CRTs in general or types of CRTs in
> particular have an effect on reading comprehension?

A good place to start reading about this subject is Mills and Weldon's
survey paper "Reading Text from Computer Screens" in ACM Computing Surveys,
Vol. 19, No. 4, December 1987.  It's a good summary of work in the area,
and has a very extensive bibliography.

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                  Eli Messinger, IBM Almaden Research Center 
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