E-book readability, comprehensibility and satisfaction

Wooyong Yi; Eunil Park; Kwangsu Cho

doi:10.1145/1968613.1968660

E-book readability, comprehensibility and satisfaction

Wooyong Yi, Eunil Park, Kwangsu Cho

Graduate School of Information

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Abstract

The style of text, including number of columns, line spacing, typeface, and font-size, may affect e-book readers' understanding, readability and satisfaction. Along with the recent appearances of e-book devices such as Amazon's Kindle, Apple iBooks, and Barns & Nobles' Nook, user experiences reading with e-books is considered critical. In this study, we investigated the issues in terms of readability, comprehensibility, and satisfaction by systematically measuring two major typographical factors: number of columns and line spacing. The study showed that these two independent variables are critical for e-book experiences from these three key aspects. Finally, the implications of this research are discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, ICUIMC 2011
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1968613.1968660
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, ICUIMC 2011 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 2011 Feb 21 → 2011 Feb 23

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Name	Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, ICUIMC 2011

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Other	5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, ICUIMC 2011
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	11/2/21 → 11/2/23

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Computer Networks and Communications
Information Systems

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Yi, W., Park, E., & Cho, K. (2011). E-book readability, comprehensibility and satisfaction. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, ICUIMC 2011 [38] (Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, ICUIMC 2011). https://doi.org/10.1145/1968613.1968660

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Yi, W, Park, E & Cho, K 2011, E-book readability, comprehensibility and satisfaction. in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, ICUIMC 2011., 38, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, ICUIMC 2011, 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, ICUIMC 2011, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 11/2/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/1968613.1968660

E-book readability, comprehensibility and satisfaction. / Yi, Wooyong; Park, Eunil; Cho, Kwangsu.

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, ICUIMC 2011. 2011. 38 (Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, ICUIMC 2011).

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