LiquidText: active reading through multitouch document manipulation
Craig Tashman
Proceeding CHI EA '10 Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems
Active reading, involving acts such as highlighting, writing notes, etc., is an important part of knowledge workers' activities. Most computer based active reading support has sought to better replicate the affordances of paper. Instead, this paper seeks to go past paper by proposing a more flexible, fluid document representation, controlled through gesture and multitouch input. Formative evaluations revealed details about modern active reading behavior and early reactions to the prototype system.
Discussion:
I thought that this design was really interesting. A lot of people like to highlight or mark in books or on paper while reading. I think that the design of LiquidText will help users for taking notes without using paper, and make it easier to pull out passages that they find important.
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