Designing the reading experience for scanned multi-lingual picture books on mobile phones

Authors:
Benjamin B. Bederson;Alex Quinn;Allison Druin
Affiliations:
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA;University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA;University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper reports on an adaption of the existing PopoutText and ClearText display techniques to mobile phones. It explains the design rationale for a freely available iPhone application to read books from the International Children's Digital Library. Through a combination of applied image processing, a zoomable user interface, and a process of working with children to develop the detailed design, we present an interface that supports clear reading of scanned picture books in multiple languages on a mobile phone.