ASIS&T;
Since 1937, ASIS&T; has been the society for information professionals leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information.
Future Reading — New Reading Spaces and Emerging Patterns for Information Architects
Although the end of the book has been long since been announced, the new reading spaces that may supplant or replace are in flowering development. Interaction designers and information architects will have a key role in creating these new spaces, in maximizing the new opportunities for experiencing text and media, and in defining new grammars of touch interaction with medium and long-form content.
In this conference we will present a panorama of new reading spaces, the interaction patterns that are emerging, and the broad trends that are becoming established. We will examine the impact that these new spaces and patterns can have on reading and navigating text, and on how the information architecture of these spaces corresponds to or challenges older models of reading.
We will look at the following subjects:
New reading spaces: Classic reading contexts and their evolutions, the new opportunities of “native touch” books, personalized magazines, and the unhitching of content from support.
Interaction during reading: Traditional navigation and pagination revisited; interaction rules as an integral part of brand experience; new ways of enriching the reading space with media (embedded, inline, marginalia, ...) and new interactions (touch manipulation, orientation, ...).
Interactions around reading: Extending the reading space; geolocalized reading; social reading; gamified reading;
We will analyze examples from European and international newspapers, magazines and art/school/fiction/non-fiction books.
We will refer to the history of the book as a complex object (cover, pages, margins, ...) and as an interface for human practices (searching, learning, sharing, commenting) to show how they evolved and to discuss what opportunities emerge today.
We will not simply present a collection of use cases, but will point towards the opportunities opening to information architects, and look at the impact these opportunities can have on the design and realisation of products specifically purposed for reading.
Claudio Vandi
Claudio Vandi (@vandicla) is Director of Silicon Xperience, Silicon Sentier UX Laboratory. He has a background in Semiotics and Communication Science (University of Bologna, Italy) and Cognitive Psychology (EPHE and University of Paris 8) that led him to explore different research subjects: how metaphors are used in user-computer interfaces, how users transfer habits of interaction across interfaces and how new digital reading interfaces change the way we read and understand texts on screen. He has been working as a researcher atLUTIN Userlab,as project manager at Universcience, Cité des sciences et de l'industrie and as an expert for the European Satellite Navigation Competition. He is the main author of the white paper: "Seniors and Interactive tablets" and he recently published a book titled "L'usabilità, modelli e progettazione" (Usability: Models and Design).
Grandin Donovan
Grandin Donovan (@grandin) is Director of User Research at the UX design agency Nealite, in Paris. An American transplant, he previously worked as product manager at the video sharing platform Dailymotion, a civilian investigator for the City of New York, and an architectural salvager in Seattle. He is fascinated by technology’s potential to create new ways of enabling access to and understanding of cultural goods - from grecian urns to scientific research. Since 2009 he has co-organized the UX Paris community group, which unites over 1400 French user experience professionals, and provides bimonthly conferences and book clubs.
