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Reading experience with curved hand‐held displays
Author(s) -
Häkkinen Jukka,
Pölönen Monika,
Salmimaa Marja,
Hautanen Jukka
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of the society for information display
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1938-3657
pISSN - 1071-0922
DOI - 10.1889/jsid16.11.1099
Subject(s) - curvature , reading (process) , perpendicular , computer science , surface (topology) , optics , geometry , computer graphics (images) , engineering drawing , physics , mathematics , engineering , linguistics , philosophy
Abstract— The aim of this study was to measure reading experiences on curved paper‐like displays. The experimental materials were mockups that consisted of printed paper attached to a curved plastic surface. The experiment participants held the mockups in their hands and evaluated the reading experience with them. Twelve font sizes, two curvature magnitudes, and two curvature directions were used in the experiment. The results showed that reading text on a curved surface was easier when the curvature direction is perpendicular to the text direction. It was also found that concave surfaces were regarded as better in cases where the text direction was the same as the curvature direction.