Purpose – This paper aims to assess the usability of electronic books (e-books) and paper books (p-books) with objective measures, including user comprehension, eye fatigue, and perception. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 56 sixth-year public school students participated in this study. This paper was conducted in the following order: pre-CFF measurement, p-/e-book reading, post-CFF mea...

Information is the pivot of which the survival of any society rests. It remains the major ingredient in taking decision; and assist in reducing the degree of uncertainty. Information and its use are as old as man. Indeed, without information there can’t be communication. The technology embrace has led to the proliferation of electronically available information resources. These resources includ...

Electronic markets and automated trading have resulted in a drastic increase in the quantity and complexity of regulatory data. Regulatory analysis now includes detailed analysis of all messaging and communications related to electronic limit order books. New order types, intra-market behavior and other exchange functionality further complicate analysis. Data visualizations have proven to be a ...

General Instructions Write your CANDIDATE NUMBER clearly on each of the THREE answer books provided. If an electronic calculator is used, write its serial number in the box at the top right hand corner of the front cover of each answer book. USE ONE ANSWER BOOK FOR EACH QUESTION. Enter the number of each question attempted in the horizontal box on the front cover of its corresponding answer boo...

This essay represents a first attempt to make sense of the mass of early modern English publications that deal with or refer to mathematics, using a bibliometric approach made possible by the new electronic databases: Early English books online and Eighteenth-century collections online. I present statistical information about references to mathematics in this corpus of books, perform some stati...

digital content re-mastering, document structure analysis, print on demand, content linking, OCR This paper presents a novel method of automatically adding navigation capabilities to re-mastered electronic books. We first analyze the need for a generic and robust system to automatically construct navigation links into re-mastered books. We then introduce the core algorithm based on text matchin...

EBONI (Electronic Books ON-screen Interface) [1] builds on the premise to emerge from the Visual Book [2] and WEB Book projects [3], that appearance is important in the design of electronic textbooks, and offers an evaluation model, or general methodology, from which ebook usability experiments in a range of areas can be extracted and remain comparable at a basic level. The methodology sets out...