Reading Chinese in e-Book Readers: A Review

  • Liang Ma
  • Pei-Luen Patrick Rau
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 6775)

Abstract

In this paper, a comprehensive review of related studies concerning reading Chinese in eBook readers is presented. This review aims at finding out related factors influencing the reading performance on eBook readers, especially for Chinese readers. The result of this paper could be useful for designing appropriate eBook readers to Chinese customers.

Keywords

Chinese Character Reading Task Electronic Paper Spatial Complexity Chinese Reader 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Liang Ma
    • 1
  • Pei-Luen Patrick Rau
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Industrial EngineeringTsinghua UniversityBeijingP.R. China

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