Exploring Orientation Cues in both Digital and Physical Books

Electronic books (eBooks) and eReaders are now a commonplace tool in the reading experience for many readers. Yet these have long received mixed reviews. Designing suitable interactions that support successful eReading experiences is a relevant task. This paper reports on an exploration of orientation cue designs for electronic books through consideration of design techniques implemented in both physical books (pBooks) and eBooks. We executed a case study of contemporary pBook and eBook orientation cue designs and report on the results of a heuristic evaluation with a small set of expert evaluators. Our findings identify the need for further investigation of the design of orientation cues for both pBooks and eBooks.

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Nicholas Vanderschantz

Claire Timpany

Annika Hinze

Yuchen Du

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 1-10

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[0001]Department of Computer Science

The University of Waikato, New Zealand

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.101

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2017)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 11 – 13 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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D. McKayA. HinzeR. HeeseN. VanderschantzC. TimpanyS. J. Cunningham 2012 An exploration of ebook selection behavior in academic library collections International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, 13 24 Springer
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N. VanderschantzC. TimpanyA. Hinze 2015 Design exploration of ebook interfaces for personal digital libraries on tablet devices Proceedings of the 15th New Zealand Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 21 30 ACM
R. WilsonM. LandoniF. Gibb 2002 A usercentred approach to e-book design The Electronic Library, 20 4):322 330

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[1] M. Bernstein 1988 The bookmark and the compass: orientation tools for hypertext users SIGOIS Bull., 9 4):34 45

[2] M. T. Carden 2008 E-books are not books Proceedings of the 2008 ACM workshop on Research advances in large digital book repositories, 9 12 ACM

[3] P. F. ChongY. P. LimS. W. Ling 2009 On the design preferences for ebooks IETE Technical Review, 26 3):213 222

[4] D. CowleyC. Williamson 2007 The world of the book 93 The Miegunyah Press

[5] R. Darnton 2009 The case for books: Past, present, and future. PublicAffairs

[6] A. Dillon 1992 Reading from paper versus screens: A critical review of the empirical literature Ergonomics, 35 10):1297 1326

[7] C. Haas 2013 Writing technology: Studies on the materiality of literacy. Routledge.

[8] M. LandoniF. Gibb 2000 The role of visual rhetoric in the design and production of electronic books: the visual book The electronic library, 18 3):190 201

[9] E. A. LovelaceS. D. Southall 1983 Memory for words in prose and their locations on the page Memory & Cognition, 11 5):429 434

[10] B. Mak 2011 How the page matters. University of Toronto Press.

[11] C. C. Marshall 2009 Reading and writing the electronic book Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services, 1 1):1 185

[12] C. C. MarshallS. Bly 2005 Turning the page on navigation Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 225 234 ACM

[13] D. McKayA. HinzeR. HeeseN. VanderschantzC. TimpanyS. J. Cunningham 2012 An exploration of ebook selection behavior in academic library collections International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, 13 24 Springer

[14] J. NielsenR. Molich 1990 Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, 249 256 ACM

[15] K. O’Hara 1996 Towards a typology of reading goals Rank Xerox Research Centre Technical Report EPC- 1996-107.

[16] J. Olsen 1994 Electronic journal literature: implications for scholars Meckler Corporation

[17] E. Z. Rothkopf 1971 Incidental memory for location of information in text Journal of verbal learning and verbal behavior, 10 6):608 613

[18] N. VanderschantzC. Timpany 2013 Who says you can’t judge a book by its cover? International Journal Of The Book, 10 4

[19] N. VanderschantzC. TimpanyA. Hinze 2015 Design exploration of ebook interfaces for personal digital libraries on tablet devices Proceedings of the 15th New Zealand Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 21 30 ACM

[20] R. WilsonM. LandoniF. Gibb 2002 A usercentred approach to e-book design The Electronic Library, 20 4):322 330

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