Design of an e-book user interface and visualizations to support reading for comprehension

Authors:
Yixing Sun;David J. Harper;Stuart N. K. Watt
Affiliations:
The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK;The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK;The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK
Venue:
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Year:
2004

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Abstract

Current e-Book browsers provide minimal support for comprehending the organization, narrative structure, and themes, of large complex books. In order to build an understanding of such books, readers should be provided with user interfaces that present, and relate, the organizational, narrative and thematic structures. We propose adapting information retrieval techniques for the purpose of discovering these structures, and sketch three distinctive visualizations for presenting these structures to the e-Book reader. These visualizations are presented within an initial design for an e-Book browser.