The expectations for Electronic Paper can be summarized as flexibility, readability, and multi‐functionality. This paper focuses on the goal of readability. Paper‐like readability should be accepted as the most important target of Electronic Paper, when we consider that no existing electronic display is as comfortable to read as paper. A concept of readable Electronic Paper is proposed, and its expected properties, style variations, applications, and various candidate technologies are summarized. As an indication of the realization of readability, an evaluation of user comfort when conducting reading tasks on paper and an LCD shows that free handling of the medium is an important factor in achieving excellent readability.
308size electronic paper device that can cover most official documents came into market and it supported handwriting with a digital pen. It seems to be suited for Abstract This paper explores how electronic paper should be used in office work in the future. Nine participants used an A4-size electronic paper device in their actual work. The results revealed that the electronic paper device is easy to handle as a device and it was well suited to support reading and writing activities which includes frequent hand-using actions such as moving, holding, and pointing to the device. However, participants felt difficulty in page navigation and overviewing documents and these features are inevitable to support document-related work in the office. To resolve this, we suggest that electronic paper should focus on its strengths and make other devices compensate for its weaknesses. In this framework, multiple devices support a single activity together by making use of strengths of each device. We also discuss three application domains: active reading, collaborative work using documents, and note-taking in the field.
An organoleptic examination technique is proposed for evaluating visibility of reflective electronic paper display (EP). The visibility of EP was compared with that of LCD under various ambient illuminances. The threshold illuminance, above which the visibility of EP was better than that of LCD, was successfully extracted.
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