What is an ebook? An interaction point of view.
The evolution of the interaction mode of the book at the dawn of the first successful ebook, how to understand it and how to design for it.
Lecture made at the University of Pisa
4. “ 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
5. “ 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
6. “ 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
7. “ 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
8.
9. The definition of book is already quite
fuzzy
fuzzy
fuzzy
fuzzy
fuzzy fuzzy
16. 1 We are conditioned by
portion sizes: by default, we
try to finish our food portion.
Rolls B.J., Morris E.L., Roe L.S. (2002)
“Portion size of food affects energy intake in normal-weight and overweight men and women”
17. 2 Closure: the mind’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
18. 1 + 2 Let’s think for a while of the
book as a cognitive object
perceived as a single item
that satisfies a promise
through reading.
29. Hitchhiker’s Guide
to the Galaxy
“A screen, about three inches by four,
lit up […] 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 speak”
30. Star Trek’s
PADD
“Consisting 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.”
31. “ I find television very educating.
Every time somebody turns on the set,
I go into the other room and read a book.
- Groucho Marx
65. 2007 2011?
2.0 3.0
‣ XHTML1.1 ‣ HTML5
‣ CSS2 ‣ CSS3
‣ May optionally support
scripting
66. “This specification does not mandate
specific rendering behavior” (2.0)
“Reading Systems with a CSS Viewport
should support all CSS constructs
included” (3.0)
67. 1999 2012 2022
4.01 5.0 Candidate
‣ The web as we know it. ‣ Video
‣ Audio
‣ Animations
‣ Visual effects
‣ Semantics
68. “User agents are expected to support CSS” (5)
“The term expected in this section has the same
conformance implications as the RFC2119-
defined term must” (5)
106. for Publishers
for Authors
1. don’t forget the whole user experience
2. the book experience is social - in its own way
107. “ Complicare è facile,
semplificare è difficile.
Per complicare basta aggiungere,
tutti sono capaci di complicare.
Pochi sono capaci di semplificare.
- Bruno Munari
108. Davide ‘Folletto‘ Casali
intenseminimalism.com
@folletto
folletto@gmail.com
Laurea Magistrale in Informatica Umanistica
Università di Pisa, 20 may 2011
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