Author_Institution :
Spatial Media Group, Univ. of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan
Abstract :
The technology-enabled future of reading is broadly surveyed. Through innovations in digital typography and electronic publishing, computers enable new styles of reading. Audio and music, animation, video, multimedia, hypermedia, and live documents extend traditional literacy. Several classes of systems and instances thereof - including commercial projects, research prototypes, and the author´s own systems - are considered, spanning scales from the granularity of a subcharacter up through the scope of the internet. Enhanced capabilities include character articulation, word-sized graphs and images, textual animation, spatial browsing, stereographic display, complementary multimedia, dynamic interaction, and duplex reading. A document can be considered a database, through which almost arbitrary slices can be made, reprojecting contents according to reader initiative.
Keywords :
Internet; electronic publishing; multimedia computing; Internet; animation; character articulation; complementary multimedia; computer-enabled reading enhancements; digital typography; duplex reading; dynamic interaction; electronic publishing; evolving literacy; hypermedia; live documents; reader initiative; spatial browsing; stereographic display; textual animation; word-sized graphs; Facial animation; Glass; Haptic interfaces; Keyboards; Olfactory; Portable document format; Three-dimensional displays;
