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Influence of text structure and prior knowledge of the learner on reading comprehension, browsing and perceived control - Participants and Conditions

  • Recruited 30 people ages 19 to 27 from Istanbul Technical University
  • Half knowledgeable, half nonknowledgeable
  • Knowledgeable meant the participants completed a prior class on productivity
  • Converted the same text in Prokopenko’s 1987 study into the 3 conditions
  • Passage about 5000 words and converted into 46 nodes
  • Hierarchical condition had 45 links
  • Mixed hypertext condition had 45 hierarchical links and 15 cross-referential links

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Updated 2021-07-17

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User experience (UX) research

Design Science