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With the rapid growth of the electronic-book (e-book) market, various types of e-book readers, such as dedicated e-book reading devices and e-book reader applications, have been released. However, the user interfaces of these e-book readers are highly diverse, which is becoming a major problem regarding usability. In this paper, user preferences for the menu composition of an e-book reader are analyzed via a survey, and an ideal menu composition for e-book readers is proposed on the basis of the survey results. The functional icons used in the menus of e-book readers are also analyzed, to investigate the necessity to standardize these icons.
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Kim, M., Gil, JM., Yoo, KH. (2011). Analysis of User Preferences for Menu Composition and Functional Icons of E-Book Readers in a Smartphone Environment. In: Kim, Th., et al. Communication and Networking. FGCN 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 266. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27201-1_43
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