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Scientific electronic book

Carolina Navarro MolinaRafael Aleixandre-benaventJuan Carlos Valderrama-zuriánAntonio Vidal-inferJuan-miguel López-gil

subject

MultimediaComputer sciencebusiness.industryInformation architecturemedia_common.quotation_subjectControl (management)Scrollcomputer.software_genreWorld Wide WebReading (process)Electronic bookDigital readingbusinesscomputermedia_common

description

This paper examines the influence of the loss of reference points for the digital readout in user interaction. This has been done using 5 eBooks from different disciplines, accessed through various consultation platforms. We have examined different aspects of the information architecture of these sites to find out if users are aware of their location in the text during reading and maintaining control to scroll through it. The results indicate the need to design more robust information architectures to overcome the problems of loss of location and convert the digital reading experience into a viable alternative

https://doi.org/10.1145/2379636.2379649