Eye Movement Patterns of Captioned Television Viewers

• DOI: 10.1353/aad.2012.0093
• Publication Date: 2012-07-15T22:40:57Z
• Authors: Carl J. Jensema; Sameh El Sharkawy; Ramalinga Sarma D...; Robert Burch; David Hsu
• Keywords: Closed captioning; Speechreading

Eye movement of six subjects was recorded as they watched video segments with and without captions. It found that the addition captions to a resulted in major changes eye patterns, viewing process becoming primarily reading process. Further, although people specific segment are likely have similar there also distinct individual differences present these patterns. For example, someone accustomed speechreading may spend more time looking at an actor's lips, while poor English skills Finally, is some preliminary evidence suggest higher captioning speed results spent on segment.