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The imposition and superimposition of digital reading technology: the academic potential of e-readers

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Alexander Thayer,

Charlotte P. Lee,

Linda H. Hwang,

Ninad DalalAuthors Info & Claims

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

Pages 2917 - 2926

https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979375

Published: 07 May 2011 Publication History

Abstract

While rapid growth in e-reader use is receiving much attention in industry and academia, the use of e-readers for academic reading remains understudied. This qualitative study investigates how graduate students accomplish their academic reading and integrate an e-reader into their reading practices. Our work represents the first long-term study of e-reading on a production device (the Amazon Kindle DX). In this paper we contribute new knowledge to the discussion of the academic potential of e-readers by analyzing the meta-level relationship between reading tasks and associated reading techniques, students' compensation for the limitations of e-readers, and the hindrance of the human ability to construct cognitive maps of texts when using e-readers.

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The imposition and superimposition of digital reading technology: the academic potential of e-readers
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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DOI:10.1145/1978942

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