Usability digitaler Lesemedien

Focusing on the reader’s benefit: Digital reading media offer a wide range of functions compared to print media: search functions, bookmarking, annotations, social reading, etc. However, they often fail to meet basic usability requirements, hindering reception and driving readers back to print media. This dissertation designs a reference model and derives a set of suitable methods from it with which to measure and improve the usability of digital reading media, including heuristic evaluation, user observation and eye-tracking, which it empirically tests on professional journal apps in a multiple case study.
Sibylle Kunz is a professor of media computer science at IUBH International University, conducting research on digital reading media and their usability.