College students' use of Kindle DX points to e-reader's role in academia - University o... - 3 views
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“Most e-readers were designed for leisure reading – think romance novels on the beach,” said co-author Charlotte Lee, a UW assistant professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering. “We found that reading is just a small part of what students are doing. And when we realize how dynamic and complicated a process this is, it kind of redefines what it means to design an e-reader.”
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The Kindle DX was more likely to replace students’ paper-based reading than their computer-based reading.
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With paper, three quarters of students marked up texts as they read. This included highlighting key passages, underlining, drawing pictures and writing notes in margins.
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This discusses the effect of e-readers on cognitive mapping and other reading techniques.
