# Analysis of Skim Reading on Desktop versus Mobile Screen
## 8 Discussion and Limitations  
This research aimed to investigate which screen size would show better performance in understanding the meaning of the text while practicing skim reading. During this study, an experiment was performed to propose how well is the memory of participants for important, unimportant, and inference sentences when they read the text over two different screen sizes in comparison to the study performed by [PERSON] and [PERSON] [35] and [PERSON] and [PERSON] [3] who considered various aspects to identify the memory for the important, unimportant and inference sentences. Upon evaluation of the current study, no significant effects were found for the important, unimportant, and inference sentences when reading from the two different screen conditions i.e., full-screen or mobile screen condition. However, an overall analysis of the results showed the effect of significance by presenting higher mean values for a full-screen condition over a mobile screen. The main hypothesis of the study suggests that skimming will show lower performance for a smaller screen, and the memory for important versus unimportant sentences will have better scores over a full-screen condition than on a small screen. The study presented by [PERSON] and [PERSON] highlighted the important aspects of memory inferences for the essential sentences. The articles used in their study are the same as the ones used in the current study. Their results showed a significant impact on  
Figure 9: Line graph of time spent on each page in case of mobile screen condition. the memory of the readers for important sentences when readers skimmed the text or read linearly. We have observed the significance of important sentences for the two different screen sizes i.e., the full-screen and the mobile screen. Unfortunately, no significant effect was observed for the important sentences when evaluated for two different screen conditions. [PERSON] and [PERSON] [35] stated that the readers had a greater tendency to respond \"true\" for both true and false sentences. Similar results are found in the current study. This study indicates some improvements for the mobile web browsers and also provides significant considerations in the design of websites that are mobile-friendly and may assist to restrict the scrolling and boost readability. It also provides a validity for our hypothesis that a smaller screen shows poor performance in contrast to a larger screen. Since we have not discussed the effect of scrolling in our study due to a short period. The effect of scrolling can be a future implication in our study to obtain significant results. A conclusion drawn from the study in reference to this study reveals that users showed comparatively low performance on a mobile screen because instead of scrolling, they were clicking multiple buttons to access the text. In the full-screen condition, the text can be accessed using 11 buttons whereas, in the mobile screen condition, 29 buttons were provided, which made a huge impact, on the reading behavior of the readers. Also, in the set time constraint, it was a competitive task to access all the text using the 29 buttons. The present research has some variables that restrict the capacity, to fully explore the outcomes and may restrict inferential statistics of the results. The sample size of 60 participants is ideal, but 16 subjects for each scenario were small for a sample size. A sample size of preferably 40 individuals would have been more representative of the population for the precise outcomes of each condition and had supported the validity of the statistical analysis. In this study, the recruited participants were not particularly diversified, as most of them were students from the University enrolled in master's programs. Moreover, the scope of the project was limited to the effect of paging. A future variant of this research may need to include other considerations such as the impact of scrolling when reading on a mobile screen versus the paging effect.