Reading and writing with computers: a framework for explaining differences in performance
Communications of the ACM
Interfaces between the designer and the document
Structured documents
Hypertext for the electronic library?: CORE sample results
HYPERTEXT '91 Proceedings of the third annual ACM conference on Hypertext
The cognitive jogthrough: a fast-paced user interface evaluation procedure
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A case study of automatic authoring: from a textbook to a hyper-textbook
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Information Retrieval
Evaluating Electronic Textbooks: A Methodology
ECDL '01 Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Evaluating the usability of portable electronic books
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Towards an engaging e-reading experience
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Online books, complementary social media and crowdsourcing
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
This paper presents the results of two studies into electronic book production. The Visual Book study [1] explored the importance of the visual component of the book metaphor for the production of more effective electronic books, while the WEB Book study [2] took the findings of the Visual Book and applied them to the production of books for publication on the WWW. Both studies started from an assessment of which kinds of paper book are more suitable for conversion into electronic form, and both identified as target publications those which are meant to be used for reference rather than those which are read sequentially and usually in their entirety by users. This includes scientific publications and textbooks which have been chosen for the Visual Book and the WEB Book experiments. In this paper we discuss the results of the two studies and the way they could influence the design and production of more effective electronic books.