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HCI design principles for ereaders

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BooksOnline '10: Proceedings of the third workshop on Research advances in large digital book repositories and complementary media

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As interactive digital documents are becoming more and more commonplace, we find ourselves searching for new ways to make good use of them. The fast delivery and large storage capacity that digital devices offer, make reading from bulky physical books seem obsolete, even nonsensical. EReaders, the latest craze in digital reading, follows from the introduction of eInk and promises paper-like reading capabilities with the added digital benefits. But is the excitement justified? Can you `curl up' with an eReader in the same way as you can a physical book, or is the design of eReading devices hindering this process?.

As of yet, no one has taken a scientific view of current eReader technology from the systematic standpoint of basic HCI principles. This paper discusses guidelines for good eReader design and illustrates them with examples of shortcomings of some of the more popular eReader devices on the market today.

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HCI design principles for ereaders
1. Human-centered computing
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    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
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BooksOnline '10: Proceedings of the third workshop on Research advances in large digital book repositories and complementary media

October 2010

58 pages

ISBN:9781450303774

DOI:10.1145/1871854

General Chairs:
Gabriella Kazai
Microsoft Research, UK
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Peter Brusilovsky
University of Pittsburgh, USA

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