Designing for Digital Reading (Paperback)

Jennifer Pearson, George Buchanan, Harold Thimbleby

  • 出版商: Morgan & Claypool
  • 出版日期: 2013-10-01
  • 定價: $1,400
  • 售價: 9.0$1,260
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 136
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 1627052437
  • ISBN-13: 9781627052436
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商品描述

Reading is a complex human activity that has evolved, and co-evolved, with technology over thousands of years. Mass printing in the fifteenth century firmly established what we know as the modern book, with its physical format of covers and paper pages, and now-standard features such as page numbers, footnotes, and diagrams. Today, electronic documents are enabling paperless reading supported by eReading technologies such as Kindles and Nooks, yet a high proportion of users still opt to print on paper before reading. This persistent habit of "printing to read" is one sign of the shortcomings of digital documents -- although the popularity of eReaders is one sign of the shortcomings of paper. How do we get the best of both worlds?

The physical properties of paper (for example, it is light, thin, and flexible) contribute to the ease with which physical documents are manipulated; but these properties have a completely different set of affordances to their digital equivalents. Paper can be folded, ripped, or scribbled on almost subconsciously -- activities that require significant cognitive attention in their digital form, if they are even possible. The nearly subliminal interaction that comes from years of learned behavior with paper has been described as lightweight interaction, which is achieved when a person actively reads an article in a way that is so easy and unselfconscious that they are not apt to remember their actions later.

Reading is now in a period of rapid change, and digital text is fast becoming the predominant mode of reading. As a society, we are merely at the start of the journey of designing truly effective tools for handling digital text.

This book investigates the advantages of paper, how the affordances of paper can be realized in digital form, and what forms best support lightweight interaction for active reading. To understand how to design for the future, we review the ways reading technology and reader behavior have both changed and remained constant over hundreds of years. We explore the reasoning behind reader behavior and introduce and evaluate several user interface designs that implement these lightweight properties familiar from our everyday use of paper.

We start by looking back, reviewing the development of reading technology and the progress of research on reading over many years. Drawing key concepts from this review, we move forward to develop and test methods for creating new and more effective interactions for supporting digital reading. Finally, we lay down a set of lightweight attributes which can be used as evidence-based guidelines to improve the usability of future digital reading technologies. By the end of this book, then, we hope you will be equipped to critique the present state of digital reading, and to better design and evaluate new interaction styles and technologies.

Table of Contents: Preface / Acknowledgments / Figure Credits / Introduction / Reading Through the Ages / Key Concepts / Lightweight Interactions / Improving Digital Reading / Bibliography / Authors' Biographies

商品描述(中文翻譯)

閱讀是一項複雜的人類活動,隨著科技的發展,已經演變並共同演進了數千年。15世紀的大規模印刷確立了我們所知的現代書籍,具有封面和紙張頁面的物理格式,以及現在標準的功能,如頁碼、註腳和圖表。如今,電子文件使得無紙閱讀成為可能,並得到了Kindle和Nook等電子閱讀技術的支持,然而高比例的使用者仍然選擇在閱讀之前打印在紙上。這種持續的“打印閱讀”習慣是數字文件不足之處的一個徵兆,而電子閱讀器的普及則是紙質書籍不足之處的一個徵兆。我們如何兼顧兩者的優點呢?

紙質書籍的物理特性(例如輕巧、薄和靈活)有助於方便地操作實體文件;但這些特性與數字等效物完全不同。紙張可以被摺疊、撕裂或隨意塗鴉,這些活動在數字形式下需要顯著的認知注意力,如果能夠實現的話。幾乎潛意識地與紙張互動,這是多年來與紙張的學習行為相結合的結果,被描述為輕量級互動,當一個人以一種輕鬆自然的方式主動閱讀一篇文章時,他們不太可能記得自己的行為。

閱讀現在正處於快速變革的時期,數字文本迅速成為主要的閱讀模式。作為一個社會,我們只是在設計真正有效的處理數字文本工具的旅程的開始階段。

本書探討了紙質書籍的優勢,如何在數字形式中實現紙張的可用性,以及什麼形式最能支持輕量級互動的主動閱讀。為了了解如何為未來設計,我們回顧了閱讀技術和讀者行為在數百年間的變化和持續性。我們探索了讀者行為背後的原因,並介紹和評估了幾種實現這些輕量級特性的用戶界面設計,這些特性在我們日常使用紙張時非常熟悉。

我們首先回顧閱讀技術的發展和多年來閱讀研究的進展。從這個回顧中提取關鍵概念,我們向前發展,開發和測試創造新的、更有效的互動方式,以支持數字閱讀。最後,我們提出了一套輕量級特性,可以作為基於證據的指南,改善未來數字閱讀技術的可用性。通過閱讀本書,我們希望您能夠批判目前的數字閱讀狀態,並更好地設計和評估新的互動風格和技術。

目錄:前言/致謝/圖片來源/引言/閱讀的演變/關鍵概念/輕量級互動/改善數字閱讀/參考文獻/作者簡介