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Why Digital Displays Cannot Replace Paper

The Cognitive Science of Media for Reading and Writing

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Authors:
  1. Hirohito Shibata

    1. Fuculty of Social Information, Gunma University, Maebashi, Japan

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  2. Kengo Omura

    1. Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Yokohama, Japan

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  • Discusses the values of paper and digital displays based on cognitive experiments
  • Gives suggestions for future digital media for reading and writing
  • Proposes selective use of paper and digital displays depending on the situation

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Reading and Writing in the Digital Age

    • Hirohito Shibata, Kengo Omura
    Pages 1-13
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  3. Various Media and Their Characteristics

    • Hirohito Shibata, Kengo Omura
    Pages 15-25
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  4. The Ease of Reading from Paper and the Difficulty of Reading from Displays

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    Pages 27-33
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  5. Effects of Presentation Quality in Reading

    • Hirohito Shibata, Kengo Omura
    Pages 35-42
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  6. Effects of Operability on Reading

    • Hirohito Shibata, Kengo Omura
    Pages 43-110
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  7. Ease of Concentration on Reading

    • Hirohito Shibata, Kengo Omura
    Pages 111-124
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  8. Effects of Writing and Drawing by Hand

    • Hirohito Shibata, Kengo Omura
    Pages 125-153
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  9. Discussion and Proposals

    • Hirohito Shibata, Kengo Omura
    Pages 155-178
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  10. Conclusion

    • Hirohito Shibata, Kengo Omura
    Pages 179-181
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About this book

From readability to operability, this book presents a number of experiments to analyze the characteristics of paper and digital displays in reading and writing. Why is it easy to read on paper? Why is it easy to concentrate on reading on paper? Why is it easy to think while writing or drawing on paper? This book answers these questions based on cognitive experiments on media. Paper is easy to read because it is easy to handle. If we emphasize the strengths of paper, paper is an operation media rather than a presentation media. These experiments also indicate how to develop digital media for reading and writing.

This book will interest those who want to gain a scientific understanding of reading and writing on paper, those who want to work more effectively by selectively using paper and digital tools (e.g. knowledge workers and educators), and those who develop digital devices or services for reading and writing.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Fuculty of Social Information, Gunma University, Maebashi, Japan

    Hirohito Shibata

  • Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Yokohama, Japan

    Kengo Omura

About the authors

Hirohito Shibata is a professor at the Faculty of Social Information, Gunma University. He received a Master of Science degree from Osaka University in 1994 and a Doctor of Engineering degree from The University of Tokyo in 2003. He worked for Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. as a researcher from 1994 to 2000 and then since 2003 to 2020. He was also a part-time lecturer at the Tokyo University of Technology and at Otsuma Women’s University and was a board member of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (SJAI). He is a Fellow of the Imaging Society of Japan (ISJ) and is also a vice president of the Electronic Paper Consortium, Japanese Business Machine and Information Systems Industries Association (JBMIA). His specialties are user interface design and cognitive science. He is also interested in supporting human intellectual activities using computers. The research on media introduced in this book has been conducted since 2007. At present, he is working on research to design a newdigital medium for reading and writing.

Kengo Omura graduated from the doctoral program of the Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Sociology, Keio University. After joining Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., he worked on studies of cognitive science, document design, and the development of document creation support. He is also a part-time lecturer at Kamakura Women’s University. His specialty is cognitive psychology. Books he has written include  Cognitive Psychology Course 2: Memory and Attention (University of Tokyo Press, 1985) and Cognitive Psychology Important Study 2: Memory Cognition (Seishin Shobo, 1996).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Why Digital Displays Cannot Replace Paper

  • Book Subtitle: The Cognitive Science of Media for Reading and Writing

  • Authors: Hirohito Shibata, Kengo Omura

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9476-2

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9475-5Published: 12 November 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9478-6Published: 12 November 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-9476-2Published: 11 November 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 181

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, Electrical Engineering

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