Stanford Reader

The Stanford Reader explores interaction techniques for a user reading long documents on a mobile device. This software was prototyped with Flash 9 and user-tested on the Nokia N800, a mobile device with a touch screen and stylus in 2007. The Flash link below demonstrates the interaction (using the mouse as an approximation for the stylus).

Key principles of the user interaction are:
- The use of gestures to turn pages. Try forward and backward flicks on the screen.
- The use of a jog dial to allow rapid flipping through pages, allowing the user to traverse long distances quickly without lifting the stylus. Clicking on the center of the jog lets the user jump back easily to the starting page, encouraging exploratory browsing.
- One-click lookup of selected text (e.g. in wikipedia) to provide supplemental information without interrupting the reader.

Click here to run the Flash demo and here for the Flash source code.

(Joint work by Sudheendra Hangal, Ashutosh Kulkarni, Josh Liptzin and Rakshit Kumar, with inputs from Scott Klemmer and Neil Patel).