• Animated Backgrounds on the Web Reduce Reading Speed: Some Empirical Evidence from a Remote Experiment 

      Vital, Ana Flávia; van der Baan, Mark; Stenberg, Øyvind Ødegård; Sandnes, Frode Eika (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;Volume 13308, Proceedings, Part I, Conference object, 2022-06-16)
      It is generally considered a bad practice to place animations as back-grounds to text. There are many convincing arguments against using animated backgrounds, yet there are few empirical studies that have assessed effects ...