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Gestalt & Interaction
of the touch ebook
The strange case of Dr. Ebook and Mr. Device
What is a book?
โ€œ 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.
 - Random House Dictionary / Dictionary.com
โ€œ 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.
 - Random House Dictionary / Dictionary.com
โ€œ 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.
 - Random House Dictionary / Dictionary.com
โ€œ 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.
 - Random House Dictionary / Dictionary.com
The de๏ฌnition of book is already quite
           fuzzy
              fuzzy
             fuzzy
           fuzzy
         fuzzy fuzzy
Photobook
Gamebook
Popup books
What is a book, really?
โ€œ You cannot open a book
  without learning something.




 - Confucio
An interaction view:
1   We are conditioned by
    portion sizes: by default, we
    try to ๏ฌnish our food portion.
    Rolls B.J., Morris E.L., Roe L.S. (2002)
    โ€œPortion size of food affects energy intake in normal-weight and overweight men and womenโ€
2   Closure: the mindโ€™s tendency
    to see completeness of forms
    from an incomplete stimuli.
    Wertheimer M., Rock I., Palmer S. (early 20th century)
    Gestalt Psychology




                                                   Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics
1   +   2   Letโ€™s think for a while of the
            book as a cognitive object
            perceived as a single item
            that satis๏ฌes a promise
            through reading.
The new coming
  of the ebook
Why didnโ€™t ebooks
really work before
      Kindle?
Hitchhikerโ€™s Guide
to the Galaxy
โ€œA screen, about three inches by four,
lit up [โ€ฆ] 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 speakโ€
Star Trekโ€™s
PADD
โ€œConsisting 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.โ€
โ€œ I find television very educating.
   Every time somebody turns on the set,
   I go into the other room and read a book.




 - Groucho Marx
book =
content +
physical support!
ebook
    โ€ฃ screen resolution
    โ€ฃ re๏ฌ‚ection & illumination

    โ€ฃ weight
Kindleโ€™s interaction paradigm
is simple
open/close


previous page                next page



                   read
(additional complexity)
open/close


             turn page



   read
...or is it?
Donโ€™t forget: habit
shapes behaviours
The reading paradigm
  left-right                          (โ€œwestern languagesโ€)




top-bottom



   gestalt
The touch age
Touch devices
  introduced a new
interaction paradigm
Skeuomorphism
Letโ€™s look around...
BBC
The Economist
Financial Times
The New Yorker
Time
Interview
Type Specimen
book/turn + web/scroll
One idea
Francesc Trovar
          Spain
Davide Tarasconi
            Italy
Benjamin Law
    Hong Kong
โ€ฃ WebKit engine
โ€ฃ html5 (multimedia)
โ€ฃ minimal admin debris
โ€ฃ opensource (commercial use)
โ€ฃ book:// identi๏ฌer protocol
โ€ฃ Hpub simple packaging
The overall
user experience
read


Most ebook devices
read   annotate
buy   read   annotate
๏ฌnd   buy          read      annotate

            Kindle + Store
            iBook + Store
๏ฌnd   buy    read     annotate


            discuss    quote
borrow
       lend

๏ฌnd    buy      read     annotate


               discuss    quote
borrow
       lend              PRIVATE

๏ฌnd    buy      read           annotate


               discuss             quote
SOCIAL



      borrow
       lend

๏ฌnd    buy         read    annotate


                 discuss    quote
Each one is a potential service / app

        borrow
         lend

๏ฌnd       buy        read        annotate


                    discuss        quote
2 ร— 2 suggestions
for Designers
1. donโ€™t assume an interaction paradigm
2. gestalt (closure) is critical
for Publishers
for Authors
1. donโ€™t forget the whole user experience
2. the book experience is social - in its own way
โ€œ Complicare รจ facile,
  semplificare รจ difficile.
  Per complicare basta aggiungere,
  tutti sono capaci di complicare.
  Pochi sono capaci di semplificare.




 - Bruno Munari
Davide โ€˜Follettoโ€˜ Casali
   intenseminimalism.com
   @folletto
   folletto@gmail.com




Ebook Lab Italia
Rimini, 3-5 marzo 2011
ebooklabitalia.com

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