TY - GEN
T1 - Effects of touchscreen mobile devices and e-book systems for mobile users
AU - Lin, Yang Cheng
AU - Wei, Chun Chun
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan under Grant No s. MOST103-2420-H-259-015 and MOST105-2221-E-141-007.
PY - 2017/7/21
Y1 - 2017/7/21
N2 - This study conducts a user-centered experiment on the touchscreen mobile device and the desktop computer with two popular e-book systems. 48 Taiwanese college students are recruited to perform 5 experimental tasks. The experimental results show the touchscreen mobile device is intuitive for the mobile users to read e-books as compared to the desktop computer. But, interestingly, they prefer to read e-books page by page as reading a traditional physical book. Furthermore, the results indicate the reading performance on the touchscreen mobile device could be compromised by the poor interface design (e.g. 'Memory Retrieval' and 'Search' functions) of the e-book system. This study suggests the 'virtual keyboard' on the touchscreen should be improved and taken into consideration for the new generation touchscreen mobile devices to satisfy their reading requirements.
AB - This study conducts a user-centered experiment on the touchscreen mobile device and the desktop computer with two popular e-book systems. 48 Taiwanese college students are recruited to perform 5 experimental tasks. The experimental results show the touchscreen mobile device is intuitive for the mobile users to read e-books as compared to the desktop computer. But, interestingly, they prefer to read e-books page by page as reading a traditional physical book. Furthermore, the results indicate the reading performance on the touchscreen mobile device could be compromised by the poor interface design (e.g. 'Memory Retrieval' and 'Search' functions) of the e-book system. This study suggests the 'virtual keyboard' on the touchscreen should be improved and taken into consideration for the new generation touchscreen mobile devices to satisfy their reading requirements.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICASI.2017.7988493
DO - 10.1109/ICASI.2017.7988493
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85028540449
T3 - Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Applied System Innovation: Applied System Innovation for Modern Technology, ICASI 2017
SP - 594
EP - 597
BT - Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Applied System Innovation
A2 - Meen, Teen-Hang
A2 - Lam, Artde Donald Kin-Tak
A2 - Prior, Stephen D.
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Applied System Innovation, ICASI 2017
Y2 - 13 May 2017 through 17 May 2017
ER -