interaction design
Design of an e-book user interface and visualizations to support reading for comprehension
Mon, 08/13/2007 - 08:52 — stuartSource:
27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information RetrievalKeywords:
interaction design, e-booksAbstract:
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.Is interaction design really design?
Mon, 02/12/2007 - 18:05 — stuartArt schools typically emphasise the visual aspects of design, as is only appropriate given their roots in the visual arts. Of course, good design has a strong visual element to it. Classic designs of the 20th century - Anglepoise lamps, the Mini, the original Apple Macintosh, and Google - have a clear and strong visual aesthetic. But they are more than this - they are have significant functional advantages over their alternatives.
