Designing interactive newsprint

Frohlich, David M.; Ely, Philip; Moore, Helen H.; Golsteijn, Connie; Egglestone, Paul; Mills, John; Rogers, Jon; Metcalf, Thomas; Stone, Kate; Menicou, Maria

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2017.03.002

Cited by 14 publications

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“…The IoT approach utilizes sensors embedded in the paper to trigger the digital content directly from the interaction with the physical paper book. [26][27][28][29][30][31][32] Miniature positional sensors, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, magnets, conductive inks, buttons, bend sensors, and capacitive touch sensors, have all been previously used to create smart paper and provide a link between the two media types. Active sensing systems in this category include ListenReader, [26] the Audioprint Player, [27] Paperþþ, [28] Interactive Newsprint, [28] an e-Reader Paper interface, [30] and TorBook.…”

Section: Core Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Magic Bookmark: A Nonintrusive Electronic System for Functionalizing Physical Books

Bairaktaris

Siderov

Celebiler³

et al. 2021

Advanced Intelligent Systems

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The use of physical paper is often preferred due to its unique physical properties that improve various aspects of reading. However, digital media and information are more engaging, diverse, and up to date, thereby challenging the existence of paper in our everyday life. By combining the two types of media in a seamless way, the interactivity of multimedia content can complement the reading experience, maintaining the unique feel of paper books. The current state of the art addressing this application negatively impacts the reading experience and often does not consider the manufacturability and sustainability of the proposed solutions. Herein, the Magic Bookmark, a technical solution for automatically recognizing the open page of a physical book, to provide seamless augmentation without changing the user's behavior and experience significantly is introduced. Three alternative solutions are implemented, with various degrees of ease of use, manufacturability at scale, and reliability of data reading. The optimal realization is found to be a reflective optical readout array, for which routes to implementation that may allow blending the graphical and functional aspects of the augmented book are proposed.

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Section: Core Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Magic Bookmark: A Nonintrusive Electronic System for Functionalizing Physical Books

Bairaktaris

Siderov

Celebiler³

et al. 2021

Advanced Intelligent Systems

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“…Striking a balance between preserving the free navigation format of printed newspapers, while avoiding crowding effects [25] within the space and navigation limits of digital screens is the immediate challenge for accessibility [26,27]. Experiments in developing interactive newsprint [28] automatic reformatting to tablets [29] offer insight on how printed newspapers can be adapted to the format and comfort different digital media.…”

Section: Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards accessible news reading design in virtual reality for low vision

Calabrèse

Kornprobst

2021

Multimed Tools Appl

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Low-vision conditions resulting in partial loss of the central visual field strongly affect patients' daily tasks and routines, and none more prominently than the ability to access text. Though vision aids such as magnifiers, digital screens, and text-to-speech devices can improve overall accessibility to text, news media, which is non-linear and has complex and volatile formatting, is still inaccessible, barring low-vision patients from easy access to essential news content. This position paper proposes virtual reality as a promising solution towards accessible and enjoyable news reading for low vision. We first provide an extensive review into existing research on lowvision reading technologies and visual accessibility solutions for modern news media. From previous research and studies, we then conduct an analysis into the advantages of virtual reality for lowvision reading and propose comprehensive guidelines for visual accessibility design in virtual reality, with a focus on reading. This is coupled with a hands-on survey of eight reading applications in virtual reality to evaluate how accessibility design is currently implemented in existing products. Finally, we present a proof-of-concept using browser-based graphics to demonstrate the feasibility of our proposal with modern virtual reality technology.

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“…The commercial state of the art is shown by audioaugmented children's books and talking photo albums which use page buttons linked to a block of electronics with audio-only output. In this context, our approach of using an embedded Bluetooth chip in the book to communicate with another device follows the Interactive Newsprint approach [14], but for visual as well as auditory augmentation.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%