Visualization Methods for Enhancing Tangibility in Digital Documents

Abstract

The initial steps towards transforming all the information from traditional, analog books into digital documents and e-book achieved with the development of technologies that allow printed contents and its information to be quantized, fragmented to digital documents such as PDF, iBook, Kindle. the abstract nature of digitized documents, however, and information saved in typical file formats which is permanently the same appearance with no signs of aged make it difficult for user to experience genuine, original value of reading material in the historical context and also make it hard for user to acquire information in the iterative process with adaptive feelings with tracks of the user made, or make it unintuitive for users to browse, navigate and read contents because of absence of basic natural, gestural interaction with paper and hence suffer from cognitive loads interpreting diverse user interfaces. We propose a design approach, visualization methodology to solve this problem that is enhancing tangibility in digital documents.