readme - the future of reading in a digitally enhanced world

MASTER IN INTERACTION DESIGN &BUSINESS DESIGN 2012 / 2013

READ-METhe future of reading in a digitally enhanced world

(UPATED 2015)

WHERE are we

TODAY?

http://bit.ly/14h4z9V

TOUCHING STORY - INTERACTIVE FILM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-edAGLokak

AI GORE'S OUR CHOICE

https://vimeo.com/15142335

ideo future of the book

http://www.wired.com/magazine/tablets/

WIRED IPAD MAGAZINE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4OzNYxCy40http://www.layar.com/

iDINOSAUR BOOKLAYAR AUGMENTED REALITY PLATFORM

Media Integration

3D Augmented Reality

Spatial Navigation

Augmented Text

Manipulable Plot

Connected Book

WHERE are we

"TOMORROW"?

What ifthe book is more than paper?

the book is alive?

the reader is active?the reader is unique?

the reader is not human?

reading experience becomes social?reading experience is fragmented?reading experience is quantifiable?

reading is exploring?

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-fujitsu-unveils-device-paper-interactive.html

Fujitsu Laboratories uses overhad projector and image processing to create interative medai on printed paper. The lab

calls this technology “Figerlink Interaction System”

Fingerlink interaction systemInteractive Paper / Image Processing


An augmented visualisation of the book, with dynamic references and updated caption that could pop out by

browsing the pages.

Concept by CollectivevisualVisual Caption / Dynamic Updates

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/426490/sketching-electronics-with-conductive-ink-video/

Leah Buechley from MIT Media Lab draws a circuit with conductive ink on paper.

Sketching electronicsEmbedded Circuits / Programming

Behaviors

http://cargocollective.com/phenji/Mito-Flip

Mito Flip is an interative pop-up book that becomes alive through video projection and iPad application.

MITO FLIPInteractive Pop-up Book / Sensor


Little Printer prints out timely personalizedmini-newspaper.

Little Printer by BergPersonalized Paper / Cross-Media /

Content Syndication

http://www.yankodesign.com/2012/07/10/digital-data-printer/

Oksu is a digital data printer that print out images that embedded with NFC technology. People can easily retrieve

data back from the print by tapping it on their devices.

OKSUPrint Media / Enhanced Paper

What ifthe book is alive?


Senory Fiction, a project by MIT Media Lab, create new reading experience through a wearable that vibrates and changes temperature as a reader read through the book.

SENSORY FICTIONBio-Sensing Book / E-Textile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfPMLgepMGE

The user casts spells by drawing shapes with the PlayStation Move controller. The book uses augmented reality technology

to enhance the digital contents.

Book of SpellsBookstage / Enriched Content


Proverbial Wallets by MIT Media LabTangible / Haptic / Data Materialization

Proverbial Wallets turn your financial information into tangible feedback in order to remind user about their online spending

behavior.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2JJWdqKI2Os

Ubooly is an interactive toy. It can tell story, and the story moves according to the user action

UboolyInteractive Toy / Reading Companion

What ifthe reader is active?

http://readwrite.com/2011/08/08/amazon_brings_social_reading_to_kindle

Kindle can show sentences with popular highlight.

KINDLE Popular HIGHLIGHtLiving Annotations / Readers Tracks

http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/pencasts/

Livescribe is a pen that automatically records and transfers your drawing and audio to your computer.

LIVESCRIBEPencasting / Audio Enhanced Sketches

http://ivanpoupyrev.com/projects/moments.php

A children’s book recorder that can be used by parents when they are reading a book together with their children. The

device can be attached to any children’s book.

Special Moments - book recorderRecording Voices / Re-telling Stories

http://blog.virallyapp.com/how-to-crowdsource-an-ebook/

“Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee)

and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.” Jeff Howe’s definition of

‘Crowdsource’

CROWDSOURCING PUBLISHINGCrowd Power / Networked Edition /

Indie Authors

What ifthe reader is unique?

http://flipboard.com/

With Flipboard, users can create their own magazine through curating from Flipboard content and read them anywhere.

FLIPBOARDContent Feeds / Personal Curation

http://longreads.com/

Longreads allows reader to search article based on amount of time it takes to read

LONGREADSTimed Content / Just in Time

http://hackingjournalism.challengepost.com/submissions/24262-datacle

Datacle allows news publishers to add “datacle” tags into their articles. These tags will display data base on geolocations of

where the articles are being read.

DATACLEPersonalize News / Location-based

Reading

http://www.volacent.com/web2go_desktop.html

Mobile app that reads aloud any text: inspired by dyslexic needs

web2goReading Aloud / Book Listening

What ifthe reader is not human?

http://www.diybookscanner.org/

The Archivist is an opensource DIY book scanner. It has been used to prepare data for Google Books, preserve historical

documents in a third-world country, and etc.

The ARCHIVISTDigitalize Content / DIY Book Scanner

http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/

IBM Watson is a supercomputer with congnitive technology that can learn and understand unstructured data and human’s

nature language. It has won human over a Jeopardy game.

IBM WatsonArtificially Intelligent (AI)

What ifthe reading experience

is social?

https://www.facebook.com/paper http://www.goodreads.com/

Paper enhances the reading experience of Facebook feed through immersive design and layout.

Goodreads is the world largest site for readers and book recommendations.

Paper by FACEBOOK GoodreadsSocial Feed / Immersive Experience Digital Library / Social Reviews

https://www.dotdotdot.me/ https://www.youversion.com/

dotdotdot is a social reading application for ebooks and long-format webtexts. Readers can follow what others are reading

and comment on their highlights.

YouVersion is an free online Bible where readers can annotate and share their thought on specific phrase in Bible. They can

also form and join reading group.

doTdotdot YouVersionEasy Reading / Public Highlights /

Long-Term ReadingSocial Annotations / Reading Groups

What ifthe reading experience is

fragmented?

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id922497631

BriefMe is an application that ranks 10 articles that are most consumed and shared at the moment and presents the

headline of those articles to the readers.

BRIEFMEViral News / Social Reading

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/opinion/sunday/faking-cultural-

literacy.html

“We no longer have the time to consume any primary material. We rely instead on the casual observations of our ‘friends’ or

the people we ‘follow’...”

Karl Taro Greenfeld, “Faking Cultural Literacy”

Faking Cultural LiteracyInformation Submersion

https://twitter.com/Slicequeen

A horror story by Toby Litt, took place over two blogs and Twitter feeds and allowed readers to become part of a family’s

slow descent into madness.

SLICEMicro-publishing / Narrative Chains

http://craigmod.com/journal/subcompact_publishing/

“We are the new customers... The Magazine is indeed cheaper, simpler, smaller, and more convenient than most

other publishing apps.”

Craig Mod, “Subcompact Publishing”

The MagazineSubcompact Publishing / Mobile Format


quantifiable?

http://booktwo.org/notebook/books-after-books/ http://yesyesno.com/nike-collab-paint

Bookr is an interactive book cover that visualizes progress of reading experience.

YesYesNo design studio turns running data from Nike+into art works

BookR by SVA Nike+ Paint With Your FeetQuantified Reading / Dynamic Cover Qualified-Self / Data Visualization /

Artwork

http://cargocollective.com/phenji/Roko http://cargocollective.com/tsnoon/eMOGIC

Roko, by Natt Phenjati, is a concept of an platform that quantifies your reading activites in order to help you manage,

discover, and share your reading experience

eMOGIC, by Thapanee Srisawat, is a concept of a book search engine that based on matching readers who have similar

emotion reaction when reading.

ROKO eMogicQuantified Reading / Goal-setting Emotion Tracking / Book Matching


exploring?

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669649/a-giant-concrete-joke-book-provides-5643-square-feet-of-laffs#5

http://lesiteducube.com/en/espace-pro/fictions-d-issy-jean-pierre-balpe_1072

5,643 square feet of jokes, monologues, and one-liners The plot takes place in a two dimensions space, the reader can wander in the fictional space of the novel as his characters

wander in the geographical space of the city, and he is discovering a psychological space.

Comedy Carpet FICTIONS D'ISSYWalkable Book / Choreographic

ReadingDistributed Text / Wander Reading

http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/07/google-endgame-augmented-reality-world/

http://simogo.com/work/device-6/

Developing by Niantic, a studio that created Ingress, Endgame: The Calling is a project that combines novels with

real world activities and rewards like real gold.

DEVICE 6, a surreal thriller app, that combines games with literature. Reader has to solve puzzles hidden in text and

multimedia to continue reading.

ENDGAME: THE CALLING DEVICE 6Immersive Novel / Real-life Puzzle Interactive Stroytelling


the book is alive?

the reader is active?the reader is unique?

the reader is not human?

reading experience becomes social?reading experience is fragmented?reading experience is quantifiable?

reading is exploring?

PEOPLE

Claudio Moderini

Koki Nomura Natalia Sourdis Sandeep Gajula Natt Phenjati Rayane Hazim

Nima Gazestani

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