Javal discovered that while reading, one's eyes tend to jump across the text in saccades, and stop intermittently along each line in fixations.
[3] The Software Usability Research Laboratory at Wichita State University did a subsequent study in 2007 testing eye gaze patterns while searching versus browsing a website, and the results confirmed that users appeared to follow Nielsen's ‘F’ pattern while browsing and searching through text-based pages.
[4] A group of German researchers conducted a study that examined the Web browsing behavior of 25 participants over the course of around one hundred days.
[7] A recent 2014 Meditative blog[8] showed evidence of the declination of the Golden Triangle phenomenon since 2005 as users view more search result listings than before.
Like the children in the Norwegian experiment, the students were tested for comprehension upon reading a number of passages: five focused around facts and information and the other five based on narratives.
However, the researchers noted that due to the participants being college students who were accustomed to using technology, they may react differently to reading on electronic devices than older individuals.
The occurrence of CVS has grown greatly over the past few years, effecting a large majority of American workers who spend over three hours a day on computers in some form.