Readability of scanned books in digital libraries

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 705-714

  Quinn, Alexander J ^a   Hu, Chang ^a   Arisaka, Takeshi ^b   Rose, Anne ^a   Bederson, Benjamin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Children's books; Digital libraries; Document navigation; Online document display; Readability; Scanned books

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; IONIZING RADIATION; LIBRARIES; NAVIGATION; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

CHILDREN'S BOOKS; DOCUMENT NAVIGATION; ONLINE DOCUMENT DISPLAY; READABILITY; SCANNED BOOKS;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 57649229638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357166     Document Type: Conference Paper

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