The reading desk: applying physical interactions to digital documents

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 benets that excel the conventional benets 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 conrmed the eectiveness of the features and the value of the system as a whole. Author Keywords Documents, Note Taking, Annotation, Bookmarking ACM Classification Keywords H.5.2 User Interfaces: input devices and strategies; interaction styles; prototyping

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Jennifer Pearson, George Buchanan, Harold W. Thimbleby
• Keywords: CHI 2011, Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Styles, Key Properties, Reading System