Effect of illumination, noise and text/background colour on spontaneous eye blink rate

Abstract

This study investigated the effect of varying levels of illumination, noise and colour combination on blink rate for subjects of different age groups (21-30, 31-40 and 41-50 years) having Internet exposure duration of less than 2 h/day (category 1) and more than 2 h/day (category 2). The pseudo reading task was designed as a software program to investigate the reading task performance. Results showed that the text-background colour combination was significant on the change in spontaneous eye blink rate (SEBR) values on both categories of users for age groups of 21-30 and 41-50 years. The effects of illumination and noise were not significant for subjects of all categories and age levels except for age group of 31-40 years with Internet exposure duration of more than 2 h/day, where illumination was observed to be significant. The results of the study further showed that ambient illumination did not affect significantly the SEBR values for every age group investigated in this research.

Effects of Colour Combination on Short-Words Processing Speed

“…Inscriptions in news programmes are rarely shown in isolation. In practice, they are put on coloured backgrounds to increase their visibility, making them easily distinguishable from the video, which is typically essential and attracts attention to a greater extent [13][14][15][16][17]. The choice of colour of the text and background is not trivial.…”