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The comparative analysis relates the results of the reading and highlighting task on paper with those of on-screen reading monitored through eye-tracking. The aim of the analysis is to compare readers’ conscious behaviors, expressed through their highlights, with the attentional data recorded by the eye-tracker. The analysis includes 109 valid trials for both experiments out of 132 administered, selected according to the quality criteria required by eye-tracking technology.

This analysis focuses exclusively on the data collected from the reading and highlighting task on paper. The study includes 129 valid trials out of 132 administered and directly observes readers’ augmented reading behaviors, using the highlights made on the texts as indicators. The results take into account both the participants’ sociodemographic profile and the order in which the two tasks included in the experimental design were carried out.