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Investigating collaborative annotation on slate pcs
Jen Pearson 
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George Buchanan,
Harold Thimbleby
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George Buchanan,
Harold Thimbleby
Start page: 413
Swansea University Author:
Jen Pearson
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DOI (Published version): 10.1145/2371574.2371637
Abstract
Mobile reading is becoming evermore popular with the introduction of eInk devices such as the Kindle, as well as the many reading applications available on slate PCs and cellular handsets. The portable nature and large storage capacity of these modern mobile devices is making reading a more technolo...
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2012
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa19250 |
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Mobile reading is becoming evermore popular with the introduction of eInk devices such as the Kindle, as well as the many reading applications available on slate PCs and cellular handsets. The portable nature and large storage capacity of these modern mobile devices is making reading a more technology orientated activity. One aspect of mobile reading that has been given surprisingly little attention is collective reading - which is a common activity with paper documents. We investigate the support of group reading using slate PCs, focussing on collective annotation. In the past, desktop PCs have proved inferior in many ways for reading, when compared to paper. Notably, user evaluations of our new system, BuddyBooks, demonstrate that the slate PC form factor can, in contrast, provide advantages for group reading. While annotation practices change with the new format, coordinating within the group can be improved when touch-interaction is carefully exploited. |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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413 |