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This article is correct in that people can use color to recognize a symbol. It is wrong in the color is the only dimension that can be used to accelerate reading.
The future will be about multi-dimensions of recognition: color, shape and perhaps movement. Anything that can help a reader recognize a set of concepts faster would have Darwinian implications over older systems.
As a start, each letter could be colored. Then common words could be colored and grouped into symbols, then symbols will have some motion. All the parts of our visual cortex will be used, not just shape recognition or color recognition. The key is pattern matching speed of the visual cortex.
And don't let this word-symbol thing get in the way. People want to associate not symbols to words but symbols to concepts. When get get systems that link symbols directly to concepts and we have an easy way to enter and read these then our ability to quickly scan large blocks of text will dramatically improve.
But color is just one dimension and until all dimensions are used there will be little real performance improvements in reading speeds.
The article was good in that it might make people think about symbol recognition a little bit more. - Posted by: dan@... Posted on: 06/04/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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