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The reading desk: applying physical interactions to digital documents

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Jennifer Pearson,

George Buchanan,

Harold ThimblebyAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 3199 - 3202

https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979416

Published: 07 May 2011 Publication History

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Reading is increasingly being performed interactively on-screen; for instance, new novels are now routinely released in electronic format for viewing on PCs and mobile devices. Unfortunately, on-screen reading loses many of the natural features of conventional physical media, such as the ability to annotate, slip in bookmarks, turn page corners, and so on. How best should these features be represented electronically? Can computerized representations give benefits that excel the conventional benefits of paper? We describe the design and implementation of a novel reading system that mimics key properties of paper and surpasses them by incorporating digital techniques. A comparative user study evaluating the system confirmed the effectiveness of the features and the value of the system as a whole.

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The reading desk: applying physical interactions to digital documents
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms

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DOI:10.1145/1978942

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