"Spritz" which allows words to jump into eyes and read sentences at a great rate

Even if you are reading sentences on the internet or books, there are a lot of people who have experienced hardly reading along with the slashers and tempos. In general, it is the reason that the reading speed of the sentences will be slower than everyday compared to the speed of speaking the language in the everyday life, but it is the cause of that, letting the letters be displayed one after another with the idea of ​​reversal, the tempo like to speak Techniques to make it possible to read sentences with "Spritz"is.

Spritz
http://www.spritzinc.com/

Here is an image using Spritz and displaying sentences at a speed of 250 words per minute (250 wpm). As characters are displayed one after another along the original sentences, the reading side can read through without moving the line of sight at all.


The following icons are placed on each page in the site and it is possible to display the sentences on the page on the Spritz screen by clicking on it, so it may be good to try various reading I do not.


In Spritz, it is also possible to adjust the display speed of characters. When it is 500 wpm, it will be about this speed, and in the first time you see it, you can hardly keep up with it. However, as I am seeing it several times, my eyes get used to it and gradually become able to distinguish it.


Spritz is a service aimed at increasing the speed of reading sentences by displaying words in a way that can be called "text streaming", and raising the quality of communication. It is a technology developed by a venture company based in Boston, USA in about three years, and experts in writing methodology and software development engineers are involved in the development.

When reading a sentence displayed on paper or display, the eyeball picks up the meaning by recognizing the word while chasing the character string. In this conventional method, 80% of the time reading the sentences is actually spent on physically moving the eyeball, and the process of actually reading the sentences is devoted only to 20% of the time It is clear that it is.


In other words, it means that the time spent on work to retrieve words by moving the line of sight slows down the overall speed of understanding. Therefore, Spritz developed a technology that eliminates the need to move the eyeball by displaying letters one after another, thereby enabling more efficient reading comprehension. This is a totally different approach from "premature reading" etc. that existed before.

The key is to limit the number of characters to be displayed to "13 characters". Research results that human eyes can recognize at once are available, and it is clear that movement of the line of sight begins when it exceeds it. For example, the news headline of Yahoo! Top Page looks like the image belowWithin 13 charactersIt also leads to being created with.


Also, changing the color of only one letter in a word is also a point to speed up the understanding process. When we see a certain word, we are doing a process of aligning the viewpoint to a part of the word without noticing and starting understanding of the brain. The position to align this line of sight isORP(Optimal Recognition Position), which is different for each word, Spritz adopts a method of inducing a faster word recognition by coloring the letters and guiding the line of sight It is.


In addition, digital unique methods are also taken. This ORP tends to shift from the center position to the left as the number of words of a word becomes longer. Spritz makes it possible to recognize characters with less burden by fixing the position fixed at one point on the screen. Figure 1 in the figure below shows the model when reading sentences with the conventional "fast reading", but the position of the ORP is finely shifted to the right and left whereas in Spritz it is constant You can see that the gaze movement is made less visible by displaying it at the position of.


In the future, we are considering deploying services such as providing services in applications, embedding kits in websites, further integration with OS and software, and operation on wearable devices. Indeed, it was held in February 2014Mobile World Congress(MWC) at the venue is a new product of SamsungGalaxy S5WhenGear 2It is announced that Spritz will be installed.

Spritz Reinvents Reading on Mobile Devices, One Word at a Time - BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 23, 2014 / PRNewswire / -
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/spritz-reinvents-reading-on-mobile-devices-one-word-at-a-time-246756751.html

As of the end of February 2014 the corresponding languages ​​are English, German, French, Spanish, Russian. Although Japanese is not included, it is said that development of Korean which grammar is said to be close is being promoted, so I'd like to expect future response.