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Friday, March 26, 2010

Eye Tracking Tablets

Considering adaptive text:

'... What if the words you're reading were watching you? Some fear for the demise of reading real books and magazines, but some tech could breathe new life into the written word and the act of reading change what you are reading -- for the better.

The best thing about reading a book on a tablet (so far) is how closely it approximates reading a “real” book — which is why the Kindle’s screen is matte like paper rather than luminescent like a laptop. Some (not all) fear for the demise of real reading and writing, but it’s more likely we’re really at the leading edge of an innovation curve that could breathe new life into the written word.

For example: What if those written words were watching you reading them and making adjustments accordingly? Eye-tracking technology and processor-packed tablets promise to react, based on how you’re looking at text — where you pause, how you stare, where you stop reading altogether — in a friction-reducing implementation of the Observer Effect. The act of reading will change what you are reading ... '

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