Reading together as a leisure activity: Implications for e-reading

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Reading from devices such as Kindles, Nooks, and tablets ("e-readers") is an increasingly common practice. A primary reason users purchase e-readers is to read for pleasure, as opposed to reading for work or school purposes. With paper, people sometimes read together from a single book (e.g., reading a bedtime story with a child) - a practice we call partnered reading. This practice, and the goals of e-reading for pleasure more generally, remain underexplored in the HCI literature. This paper contributes findings from a deployment study wherein participants used an e-reader application to read with a partner. These findings (a) provide descriptive accounts of how people use e-readers to read together, and (b) identify opportunities to improve the design of e-readers to support partnered e-reading for pleasure. © 2013 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.

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Massimi, M., Campigotto, R., Attarwala, A., & Baecker, R. M. (2013). Reading together as a leisure activity: Implications for e-reading. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 8118 LNCS, pp. 19–36). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40480-1_2

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