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Reading-in-the-Small: a study of reading on small form factor devices
- Proceedings of the Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
, 2002
"... The growing ubiquity of small form factor devices such as Palm Pilots and Pocket PCs, coupled with widespread availability of digital library materials and users ’ increasing willingness to read on the screen, raises the question of whether people can and will read digital library materials on handh ..."
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The growing ubiquity of small form factor devices such as Palm Pilots and Pocket PCs, coupled with widespread availability of digital library materials and users ’ increasing willingness to read on the screen, raises the question of whether people can and will read digital library materials on handhelds. We investigated this question by performing a field study based on a university library’s technology deployment: two classes were conducted using materials that were available in e-book format on Pocket PCs in addition to other electronic and paper formats. The handheld devices, the course materials, and technical support were all provided to students in the courses to use as they saw fit. We found that the handhelds were a good platform for reading secondary materials, excerpts, and shorter readings; they were used in a variety of circumstances where portability is important, including collaborative situations such as the classroom. We also discuss the effectiveness of annotation, search, and navigation functionality on the small form factor devices. We conclude by defining a set of focal areas and issues for digital library efforts designed for access by handheld computers.
Navigation Techniques for Dual-Display E-Book Readers
"... Existing e-book readers do not do a good job supporting many reading tasks that people perform, as ethnographers report that when reading, people frequently read from multiple display surfaces. In this paper we present our design of a dual-display e-book reader and explore how it can be used to inte ..."
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Existing e-book readers do not do a good job supporting many reading tasks that people perform, as ethnographers report that when reading, people frequently read from multiple display surfaces. In this paper we present our design of a dual-display e-book reader and explore how it can be used to interact with electronic documents. Our design supports embodied interactions like folding, flipping, and fanning for local/lightweight navigation. We also show how mechanisms like Space Filling Thumbnails can use the increased display space to aid global navigation. Lastly, the detachable faces in our design can facilitate inter-document operations and flexible layout of documents in the workspace. Semi-directed interviews with seven users found that dual-displays have the potential to improve the reading experience by supporting several local navigation tasks better than a single display device. Users also identified many reading tasks for which the device would be valuable. Users did not find the embodied interface particularly useful when reading in our controlled lab setting, however. Author Keywords E-book, reading, multiple display devices, embodied interfaces,
Saving and using encountered information: Implications for electronic periodicals
- In CHI ’05: Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
, 2005
"... As part of a focus on electronic publications, we undertook an exploratory study of how people saved and used the information they encountered while reading. In particular, we wanted to understand the role of clipping and whether it would be a necessary form of interaction with electronic publicatio ..."
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As part of a focus on electronic publications, we undertook an exploratory study of how people saved and used the information they encountered while reading. In particular, we wanted to understand the role of clipping and whether it would be a necessary form of interaction with electronic publications. We interviewed 20 diverse individuals at home and at work, bringing together narrative accounts and physical and digital examples to investigate how people currently collect and use clippings from their everyday reading. All study participants had examples of materials they had deliberately saved from periodicals, ranging from ads torn from newspapers and URLs received in email messages to large stacks of magazines. Participants rarely read periodicals specifically to clip but rather recognized items of interest when they were encountered. The work highlights the importance of encountering information as an activity distinct from task-focused browsing and searching and reveals design implications for online reading and clipping technologies.
Reading and Interactivity in the Digital Library: Creating an Experience that Transcends Paper
- In Digital Library Development: The View from Kanazawa, (Deanna Marcum and Gerald George, eds.) Libraries Unlimited
, 2005
"... Recently I read two articles in the Communications of the ACM that made parallel, if somewhat alarming, claims. The first, from Peter Neumann’s column, “Inside Risks, ” observed that “we seem to have evolved into a mentality of ‘If it’s not on the Internet, it doesn’t exist.’ ” He also notes that th ..."
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Recently I read two articles in the Communications of the ACM that made parallel, if somewhat alarming, claims. The first, from Peter Neumann’s column, “Inside Risks, ” observed that “we seem to have evolved into a mentality of ‘If it’s not on the Internet, it doesn’t exist.’ ” He also notes that the Web duplicates very little of the material we might find in traditional institutions like public libraries [24]. The second article, by Leah Graham and Panagiotis Takis Mataxas, points to experimental evidence that although most of today’s students do research exclusively on the Internet, very few of them double-check the information that they find, or – better yet – locate multiple independent sources to corroborate what they’ve learned from a single source [6]. From my point of view, these articles point to two important research questions. First, and most fundamentally, much of what we read when we research a topic now arrives in digital form; how can we ensure that people are able to read it when and where they retrieve it? The second, and more provocative of the two questions is: How will people interact and work with these digital materials in a
Identifying useful passages in documents based on annotation patterns
- In Proceedings of ECDL’03
, 2003
"... Abstract. Many readers annotate passages that are important to their work. If we understand the relationship between the types of marks on a passage and the passage’s ultimate utility in a task, then we can design e-book software to facilitate access to the most important annotated parts of the docu ..."
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Abstract. Many readers annotate passages that are important to their work. If we understand the relationship between the types of marks on a passage and the passage’s ultimate utility in a task, then we can design e-book software to facilitate access to the most important annotated parts of the documents. To investigate this hypothesis and to guide software design, we have analyzed annotations collected during an earlier study of law students reading printed case law and writing Moot Court briefs. This study has allowed us to characterize the relationship between the students ’ annotations and the citations they use in their final written briefs. We think of annotations that relate directly to the written brief as high-value annotations; these annotations have particular, detectable characteristics. Based on this study we have designed a mark parser that analyzes freeform digital ink to identify such high-value annotations. 1
A document corpus browser for in-depth reading
- In JCDL ’04: Proceedings of the Fourth ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
, 2004
"... Software tools, including Web browsers, e-books, electronic document formats, search engines, and digital libraries are changing the way people read, making it easier for them to find and view documents. However, while these tools provide significant help with short-term reading projects involving s ..."
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Software tools, including Web browsers, e-books, electronic document formats, search engines, and digital libraries are changing the way people read, making it easier for them to find and view documents. However, while these tools provide significant help with short-term reading projects involving small numbers of documents, they provide less help with longer-term reading projects, in which a topic is to be understood in depth by reading many documents. For such projects, readers must find and manage many documents and citations, remember what has been read, and prioritize what to read next. This paper describes three integrated software tools that facilitate in-depth reading. A first tool extracts citation information from documents. A second finds on-line documents from their citations. The last is a document corpus browser that uses a zoomable user interface to show a corpus at multiple granularities while supporting reading tasks that take days, weeks, or longer. We describe these tools and the design principles that motivated them.
Investigating the information-seeking behaviour of academic lawyers: from Ellis’s model to design. Available at: http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/ 5219/2/5219.pdf. Accessed on 12/08/2013
, 2008
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Interactive Timeline Viewer (itlv): A tool to visualize variants among documents
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
, 2002
"... Abstract. In this paper we describe ItLv (Interactive Timeline Viewer), a visualization tool currently used to depict the variants obtained in a textual collation. A textual collation is a process in which a base text is compared against several comparison texts to identify differences (variants) am ..."
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Abstract. In this paper we describe ItLv (Interactive Timeline Viewer), a visualization tool currently used to depict the variants obtained in a textual collation. A textual collation is a process in which a base text is compared against several comparison texts to identify differences (variants) among them. The interactive options of ItLv provide different abstractions of a dataset by enabling the presentation and exploration of the relationships that exist within the dataset. Applying ItLv to the dataset resulting from a collation therefore helps understand the relationships among the texts. The example dataset used in this paper is a collation of six early editions of Cervantes ’ Don Quixote.
More than Passive Reading: Interactive Features
- in Digital Libraries”, Proceedings of E-Learn 2002
, 2002
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Hybrid Documents Ease Text Corpus Analysis For Literary Scholars
"... The designed system in use. Digital augmentation (marked by arrows) at the edge of a core physical document is integrated into expressive paper-centric processes on the desk. We present a study that explores how literary scholars interact with physical and digital documents in their daily work. Moti ..."
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The designed system in use. Digital augmentation (marked by arrows) at the edge of a core physical document is integrated into expressive paper-centric processes on the desk. We present a study that explores how literary scholars interact with physical and digital documents in their daily work. Motivated by findings from this study, we propose refactoring the working environment of our target audience to improve the integration of digital material into established paper-centric processes. This is largely facilitated through the use of hybrid documents, i.e., cross-modal compound documents that employ a printed book for rich, tangible interaction in tandem with a digital component for matching interactive augmentation on a digital workbench. The results from two user studies in which we evaluated increasingly detailed prototypes demonstrate that this design offers better support for central workflows in literary studies than currently prevalent approaches. ACM Classification: H5.2 [Information interfaces and presentation]: