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SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Design of an e-book user interface and visualizations to support reading for comprehension
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 ...
Yixing Sun, David J. Harper, Stuart N. K. Watt
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
The active reading task: e-books and their readers
This paper describes the Active Reading task, a recent addition to the INEX Book Search track1 . This task aims at exploring how people interact with e-books in different scenario...
Monica Landoni
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Reading in the office
Reading online poses a number of technological challenges. Advances in technology such as touch screens, light-weight high-power computers, and bi-stable displays have periodicall...
Gene Golovchinsky
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 9 months ago
Active reading and its discontents: the situations, problems and ideas of readers
The increasing popularity of personal reading devices raises the question of how best to support so-called active reading, which involves acts like annotation, note taking, etc. P...
Craig S. Tashman, W. Keith Edwards
IUI
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
ScentHighlights: highlighting conceptually-related sentences during reading
Researchers have noticed that readers are increasingly skimming instead of reading in depth. Skimming also occur in re-reading activities, where the goal is to recall specific top...
Ed Huai-hsin Chi, Lichan Hong, Michelle Gumbrecht,...