Can readability on small screens be improved by using adaptive Rapid Serial Visual
Presentation (RSVP) that adapts the presentation speed to the characteristics of the text
instead of keeping it fixed? In this paper we introduce Adaptive RSVP, describe the design
of a prototype on a mobile device, and report findings from a usability evaluation where the
ability to read long and short texts was assessed. In a latin-square balanced repeated-
measurement experiment, employing 16 subjects, two variants of Adaptive RSVP were …

Can readability on small screens be improved by using Rapid Serial Visual Presentation
(RSVP) that adapts the presentation speed to the characteristics of the text? In this paper we
introduce Adaptive RSVP and also report findings from a usability evaluation where the
ability to read long and short texts on a mobile device was assessed. In a balanced repeated-
measurement experiment employing 16 subjects two variants of Adaptive RSVP were
benchmarked against Fixed RSVP and traditional text presentation. For short texts all RSVP …