Abstract
Many studies have shown that electronic texts are less readable than paper texts. The restriction on the employment of reading strategies is thought to be one of the factors contributing to the lowered readability of electronic texts. In this paper, we report on our development of a support system for reading web texts facilitated the application of the SQ 3 R method known as the systematic reading strategy, and examine the usefulness of this system. In the evaluation experiments, we compared the readability of three medias：using our system, a common web interface, and printed paper. The results showed that our system's effectiveness and satisfaction were significantly higher than those of the other two. Consequently we were able to confirm that our system, which facilitates the application of a systematic reading strategy, improves the readability of web texts.
