Intuitive Page-turning Interface of E-books on Flexible E-paper based on User Studies
I've recently discovered a short paper which is relevant to my current project. The short paper is basically the Gummi system applied to EBooks. It seems fairly incremental and doesn't reference a very similar paper which was published a month before. The paper goes into elaborate detail about how their prototype system was constructed including model numbers of programmable integrated circuits used. It is however reassuring that other researchers are also having trouble obtaining flexible displays and have to resort to prototyping without the most ideal technologies in order to perform experiments and usability evaluations. Hopefully in time there will be less difficulty associated with obtaining flexible displays since this would be beneficial to research efforts.
The papers mentioned are:
Tajika, T., Yonezawa, T., and Mitsunaga, N. 2008. Intuitive
page-turning interface of e-books on flexible e-paper based on user
studies. In Proceeding of the 16th ACM international Conference on Multimedia
(Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 26 - 31, 2008). MM '08.
ACM, New York, NY, 793-796. DOI=
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1459359.1459489
Watanabe, J., Mochizuki, A., and Horry, Y. 2008. Bookisheet: bendable
device for browsing content using the metaphor of leafing through the
pages. In Proceedings of the 10th international Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
(Seoul, Korea, September 21 - 24, 2008). UbiComp '08, vol. 344. ACM,
New York, NY, 360-369. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1409635.1409684
Tags: page-turning interface, e-paper, e-book reader, bend sensor, OUI
