Relationship of Operation and Eye Movement in Flipping Back and Rereading E-Books on a Touch Panel Display

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyze eye movement in reading vertically written e-book with flipping back and rereading on a touch panel display. To track user's eye movement in reading e-book, an e-book reader has been implemented on the PC with a touch panel display. Using this reader, an experiment was conducted to examine eye movement in reading e-books with a touch interface on 3 size panels (4, 7 and 10 inch). The results were discussed by following aspects, size of display area, experience of touch devices, touch operation and direction of rereading. As a conclusion, characteristic gaze pattern with direction of rereading and using slider interface have been obtained.