Design of an e-book user interface and visualizations to support reading for comprehension

Abstract

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.

A Semi-automatic Support to Adapt E-Documents in an Accessible and Usable Format for Vision Impaired Users

“…Other studies on this topic include the work by Sun et al [8], who designed e-Book browsers that aid users in perceiving and understanding the important conceptual structures of a book, and hence improve their comprehension of the book content.…”