Usability evaluation of E-books

Yen Yu Kang; Mao Jiun J. Wang; Rungtai Lin

doi:10.1016/j.displa.2008.12.002

Usability evaluation of E-books

Yen Yu Kang^*
, Mao Jiun J. Wang
, Rungtai Lin

^*Corresponding author for this work

National Kaohsiung Normal University
National Tsing Hua University
National Taiwan University of Arts

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Abstract

The objective of this study is to evaluate the usability of electronic books (E-books). An experiment was designed to compare the differences between reading an E-book and a conventional book (C-book) with objective measures. Twenty junior college students, ages sixteen to eighteen, participated in the study. Response measures included reading performance and critical flicker fusion (CFF). The results indicate that reading an E-book causes significantly higher eye fatigue than reading a C-book. Reading a C-book generated a higher level of reading performance than reading an E-book. In addition, females demonstrated better reading performance than males in reading either book. Crown

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	49-52
Number of pages	4
Journal	Displays
Volume	30
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.displa.2008.12.002
State	Published - 04 2009
Externally published	Yes

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E-book
Eye fatigue
Reading performance

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