Chapter 7: Investigating the Attributes Elicited in Consort

This chapter builds from the previous research by describing usability tests on eight Webpage interfaces that combine each of the three attributes highlighted earlier as worthy of further research:

The use of images (and the type of image and what they are depicting) is so central to both electronic and hardcopy information that a complete chapter (Chapter Six) has already been dedicated to prior work in the area. In this chapter prior literature is outlined on text size and menu position, followed by the writer's two studies addressing the issues.

Text size has been shown to be an important variable in usability studies (Hoehl, 2016; Ling & Van Schaik, 2006). According to Rello, Pielot, and Marcos (2016), ‘research on font size has a long history in the HCI Community…. typically [finding] that the biggest tested font size leads to the best results’ (p. 3638). However, the authors point out that several factors have not been reported in the literature, including text comprehension, line spacing and font sizes of greater than 16 point. The authors addressed each of these omissions in a study examining the readability (and comprehensibility) of passages from Wikipedia. One hundred and four people (of whom seven were attending school or high school and 92 studying or having completed university degrees) participated in the study.