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This study used Japanese sentences to investigate how inner character space, line space, and reader age differences affect readability. Results can suggest good layout of sentences for older adults. Japanese sentence experiments revealed that adequate inner character, line space, and number of characters provide good readability.
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Itoh, N., Sagawa, K. (2019). Aging Effects of Inner Character Space and Line Space of Japanese Language. In: Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T., Fujita, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018). IEA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 826. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96065-4_18
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