Gestalt & Interaction of the touch ebookThe strange case of Dr. Ebook and Mr. Device
What is a book?
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- Random House Dictionary / Dictionary.com
1. a written or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.2. a number of sheets of blank or ruled paper bound together for writing, recording business transactions, etc.3. a division of a literary work, especially one of the larger divisions.
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- Random House Dictionary / Dictionary.com
1. a written or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.2. a number of sheets of blank or ruled paper bound together for writing, recording business transactions, etc.3. a division of a literary work, especially one of the larger divisions.
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- Random House Dictionary / Dictionary.com
1. a written or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.2. a number of sheets of blank or ruled paper bound together for writing, recording business transactions, etc.3. a division of a literary work, especially one of the larger divisions.
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- Random House Dictionary / Dictionary.com
1. a written or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.2. a number of sheets of blank or ruled paper bound together for writing, recording business transactions, etc.3. a division of a literary work, especially one of the larger divisions.
fuzzyfuzzyfuzzy
fuzzyfuzzy
The definition of book is already quite fuzzy
Photobook
Gamebook
Popup books
What is a book, really?
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- Confucio
You cannot open a book without learning something.
An interaction view:
We are conditioned by portion sizes: by default, we try to finish our food portion.Rolls B.J., Morris E.L., Roe L.S. (2002) “Portion size of food affects energy intake in normal-weight and overweight men and women”
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Closure: the mind’s tendency to see completeness of forms from an incomplete stimuli.Wertheimer M., Rock I., Palmer S. (early 20th century)Gestalt Psychology
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Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics
21 + Let’s think for a while of the book as a cognitive object perceived as a single item that satisfies a promise through reading.
The new coming of the ebook
Why didn’t ebooks really work before
Kindle?
Hitchhiker’s Guideto the Galaxy
“A screen, about three inches by four, lit up […] a large red button at the bottom of the screen and words began to undulate across it. At the same time, the book began to speak”
Star Trek’sPADD
“Consisting of a large touchscreen display and minimalistic manual interface or control panel (generally only one or two buttons), the typical PADD is used for a variety of functions.”
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- Groucho Marx
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
book =
content +
physical support!
ebook‣screen resolution
‣reflection & illumination
‣weight
Kindle’s interaction paradigmis simple
previous page next page
open/close
read
(additional complexity)
turn page
open/close
read
...or is it?
Don’t forget: habit shapes behaviours
The reading paradigm
(“western languages”)left-right
top-bottom
gestalt
The touch age
Touch devices introduced a new
interaction paradigm
Skeuomorphism
Let’s look around...
BBC
The Economist
Financial Times
The New Yorker
Time
Interview
Type Specimen
book/turn + web/scroll
don’t forget closure!
One idea
Francesc TrovarSpain
Davide TarasconiItaly
Benjamin LawHong Kong
‣WebKit engine
‣html5 (multimedia)
‣minimal admin debris
‣opensource (commercial use)
‣book:// identifier protocol
‣Hpub simple packaging
The overall user experience
read
Most ebook devices
read annotate
buy read annotate
find buy read annotate
Kindle + StoreiBook + Store
find buy read annotate
discuss quote
find buy read annotate
discuss quote
lendborrow
find buy read annotate
discuss quote
lendborrow
PRIVATE
find buy read annotate
discuss quote
lendborrow
SOCIAL
find buy read annotate
discuss quote
lendborrow
Each one is a potential service / app
2 × 2 suggestions
1. don’t assume an interaction paradigm2. gestalt (closure) is critical
for Designers
1. don’t forget the whole user experience2. the book experience is social - in its own way
for Publishers for Authors
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- Bruno Munari
Complicare è facile,semplificare è difficile.Per complicare basta aggiungere,tutti sono capaci di complicare.Pochi sono capaci di semplificare.
Davide ‘Folletto‘ Casaliintenseminimalism.com@[email protected]
Ebook Lab ItaliaRimini, 3-5 marzo 2011ebooklabitalia.com
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