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Posted by Harsh Khatri on Aug 2, 2011 in ebooks, project, Project Sunflower | Comments Off

Jakob Neilsen has devised ten general usability heuristics that help evaluate user interface design. Further to our usability research,...

Posted by Harsh Khatri on Jul 29, 2011 in ebooks, project, Project Sunflower | Comments Off

The Motorola XOOM is the first tablet to run on Android 3.0. It supports 720p recording and boasts an Nvidia Tegra 2 1GHz processor. The...

Posted by Harsh Khatri on Jul 28, 2011 in ebooks, project, Project Sunflower | Comments Off

The Kindle DX is the only dedicated eBook reader from the devices we are using for the study. It has an E-Ink Pearl display and was made...

Posted by Harsh Khatri on Jul 25, 2011 in ebooks, project, Project Sunflower | Comments Off

The iPad since its launch has been promoted primarily as a web-surfing device. Its eBook reading capabilities came with applications that...

Posted by Harsh Khatri on Jul 22, 2011 in ebooks, featured, project, Project Sunflower | Comments Off

As part of our eBook usability study, this part deals with studying the devices from the eBook reader point of view. All three devices, ...

Posted by Emma Tonkin on Jun 4, 2011 in haptics, Uncategorized | Comments Off

The £4 touch-sensitive surface (Arduino and resistors not included). Prerequisites: 2 piezoelectric vibration sensors 2 x 1 megaohm...