Researcher: A Reading Application Helping the Flow of Research in Tablet and Mobile Phone

Abstract

With a growing digital environment, a huge quantity of digital content is being created and distributed quickly. Therefore, people from academia are under pressure to create and study such content. In addition, there are a number of reading applications supporting different functions and diverse platforms, which distract the flow of research. To solve this problem, we created a prototype reading app, Researcher, for the tablet PC and mobile phone, which helps the flow of research by providing cooperation among platforms, seamlessly circulating between consumption and creation of contents, prioritizing contents by context, and holding attention by multimodal input. We conducted an in-depth interview and survey to verify the effectiveness of the features and to find out the appropriate modality of input for the flow of research.