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Instead of presenting textbooks as a page, why not
present it
as a massive "mind map", navigable via zooming?
Think google earth, but for reading, and with interactive
links
to internal and external content.
The content could be arranged in a static physical
location in
2D space, or
it can be arranged as 'recursive relations'
allowing for infinite regression (e.g. definitions of each
word
seen when zooming at a word).
This allows for a natural interface, that minimise clutter
by
varying the size of the text, based on importance. (
BunsenHoneydew's idea: Provide variable level of
summerization of the information at various zoom level.
)
Zoomable Information Seeking
https://www.youtube...watch?v=SSVeT5ipvvk
[mofosyne, Jun 03 2014]
wikipedia on ZUI
http://en.wikipedia...ming_user_interface
[mofosyne, Jun 03 2014]
Very Large EVE online poster
http://img.gawkeras...evzjpg/original.jpg
[mofosyne, Jun 03 2014]
Poster from Kotaku
http://kotaku.com/e...comparis-1391608737
[mofosyne, Jun 03 2014]
Text Compactor
http://textcompactor.com/
Free online deVernonizer [BunsenHoneydew, Jun 06 2014]
Project Xanadu
http://xanadu.com/
Started in 1960, they just now released a demo. [Spacecoyote, Jun 06 2014]
[link]
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Because I don't want to have to take a Dramamine just
to read a book? |
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probbly as dizzy as prezi. So it shouldn't be that bad |
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Why is 2 dimensions better than 1, or 3? |
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— bigsleep :
I'm thinking more of a really big poster, with
content at different magnification. A PDF link
simply jumps you to a page or URL. |
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In a zoomable ebook however, it would
instead refocus the user's screen to a new
Position & Magnification within the poster (Which
may be within the current viewport, but just
really small.). |
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Also content recursion (attaching content
automatically near other content, but at a really
shrunken size) allows for a more natural reading
interface when doing cross referencing. E.g.
Zooming into a word may show a very tiny box
with the word's dictionary definition, getting back
to your original view is as simple as zooming
backwards. Check the EVE poster to the side. |
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— pocmloc : Hmmm... Can you say its 2D, with
depth? Kind of like how you can zoom in a
Mandelbrot set. |
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I like this for a choose your own adventure.
Certain words you can spin. On spinning you find
out their other dimensions: these words are
pieces of other sentences in other but related
text. You can head off into this related text. |
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There could be many of these dimensions. They
need not correlate to spatial dimensions but must
to some degree to allow for the spinning property.
For example I turn the word into the page at 15
degrees and see the different page come into
view. 30 degrees brings a whole other page. |
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Funning with the spatial thing, turned a lot the
word might become a different word with some
characters subsumed into others. Turned in past
90 degrees of course the word would be
backwards. |
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Possibly for some reference books, but for a
textbook or something, I want to be able to read
straight through and get all the information. If I
have to take a lot of detours to get all the
information, I may miss some or read it in a non-
optimal order. |
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AKA: The TVtropes/Wikipedia Effect. |
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Well, this seems more useful in the version I imagined when I read the title. |
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Use a text summary algorithm [link] to generate summaries at any level of zoom, over any length of the plaintext. |
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100% zoom is the complete original text of the work. 50% reads much like the Reader's Digest condensed edition. At around 25% you have the Cliff Notes version, 5% is the wikipedia summary, 1% is the back cover blurb, and 0.01% says "Obsessed sea captain hates whale, hunts it". |
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By selecting which section to expand, you can descend down a branching tree of summaries into the text. |
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Dang, I saw a ghost. [BunsenHoneydew] how the hell
are you??? |
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Kind of reminds me of Project Xanadu [link]. |
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