gBook: an e-book reader with physical document navigation techniques

Authors:
Jesse Burstyn;M. Anson Herriotts
Affiliations:
Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada;Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Venue:
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we present gBook, a prototype for a new style of e-book reader that uses flexible inputs and page orientation to simulate the properties of reading a bound printed book. This project takes into account some of the known methods that people use when reading books, to make page navigation correspond more to that of paper-based books. The underlying assumption is that doing so will improve the learnability of navigation, as well as the usability by allowing more casual methods of page navigation.