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Textual visualization based on readability

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Many previous examples of text visualization have generally focused on a book's contents and on plot analysis, but these approaches hardly provide practical clues needed for a reader to pick the right book for them, out of the thousands of recommendations on an Internet book store's Web site. Common readers' questions are not academic but practical: How much time will I need to read this book? Is it easy enough for a third-grade kid? This paper suggests that intuitive text visualization reflecting readability to support reader book selection.

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SA '11: SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Posters
December 2011
61 pages
ISBN:9781450311373
DOI:10.1145/2073304
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  • (2016)Authoring WCAG2.0-Compliant Texts for the Web Through Text Readability VisualizationUniversal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Methods, Techniques, and Best Practices10.1007/978-3-319-40250-5_5(49-58)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2016
  • (2013)Text VisualizationProceedings of the 2013 17th International Conference on Information Visualisation10.1109/IV.2013.9(74-79)Online publication date: 16-Jul-2013
  • (2013)Genre Visualization Based on Words Used in TextHCI International 2013 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts10.1007/978-3-642-39476-8_111(551-554)Online publication date: 2013

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