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Steve Yalowitz has done some studies on label-reading at the Monterey Bay
Aquarium. I know that he used video to determine whether people were looking
at the labels. I don't know if his research is published.

Lisa Hubbell Mackinney
Program Evaluator
California Academy of Sciences
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118
415/750-7011
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> From:         Informal Science Education Network on behalf of Cindy
> Chambers
> Reply To:     Informal Science Education Network
> Sent:         Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:06 PM
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> Subject:      Re: research on reading graphic panels
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Many thanks for your replies so far. 
> 
> What I failed to mention in my original message was that the article was
> suggesting (or possibly used) eye-tracking software to measure how people
> scanned graphic panels as they approached an exhibit, rather than using
> observational sessions, surveys or recording conversations. I might check
> out human factor journals instead of education and museum-based journals.
> 
> Thanks
> Cindy Chambers

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