I am not sure that boffin should be applied to programmers but looks useful all the same. Now if they can get the same trick to work for proper e-book readers that would be more interesting.
Korean boffins make e-books more like real ones
Korean researchers have developed an app which makes reading e-books more like flicking through the pages of the real thing. The Smart eBook interface prototype from the KAIST Institute of Information Technology Convergence is an iPad app packed with extra gestures for finer page control. It allows users to turn pages …
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Thursday 26th January 2012 15:29 GMT Tom 7
Again?
Didnt the British Library publish an e-book that folded pages over - 10 years ago or so.
Interesting but still not as good as paper or a decent e-format. If you dont make your data paper-shaped in the first place you dont have to bust a gut trying to get a computer interface to work like paper.
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Thursday 26th January 2012 22:23 GMT cosymart
Am I missing something here...
We don't need an electronic reader to emulate a book what we need is an e-reader to present the most suitable combination of colours/background for the electronic screen! Aaarrrh!!!!
Why oh why do we still produce documents that are for reading on a screen in black and white? Don't get me started on the correct font either!
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Friday 27th January 2012 19:09 GMT Anonymous Coward
Back-to-front design at its most pointless!
We have to flip through 'dead tree' books because the pages have a fixed size, are not searchable, are physically joined together along one edge and obscure each other. So why the hell build the same inefficiencies into an electronic interface? Surely such boffinry would be better employed taking advantage of the flexibility offered by virtual, resizeable, searchable, thumbnail-able electronic pages to come up with more efficient navigation —not less!
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Saturday 28th January 2012 20:48 GMT Anonymous Coward
cute, would sell, but not faster and easier
I turn off page turning animations (just keep "slide pages") on my readers. Sliding pages is enough cue that I've flicked through, and is unintrusive enough.
The page turning is cute - for all of two minutes. Then it gets annoying, on device that does not have pages, and especially one that does not need to turn pages.
A GOOD USER INTERFACE DOES NOT HAVE TO MIMIC PHYSICAL INTERFACES.
Call me a luddite, you'd be wrong. A luddite is someone who needs to see pages turning on a ferdammt screen.