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10.1: Invited Paper: What is Electronic Paper? The Expectations
Author(s) -
Omodani Makoto
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
sid symposium digest of technical papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 2168-0159
pISSN - 0097-966X
DOI - 10.1889/1.1825751
Subject(s) - readability , flexibility (engineering) , computer science , realization (probability) , reading (process) , multimedia , electronic book , factor (programming language) , human–computer interaction , electronic media , usability , programming language , linguistics , statistics , philosophy , mathematics
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.