Tech Report HCIL-2009-06

Bederson, B., Quinn, A., Druin, A. (March 2009)
Designing the Reading Experience for Scanned Multi-lingual Picture Books on Mobile Phones
To be published at JCDL 2009
HCIL-2009-06

This paper reports on an adaption of the existing PopoutText and ClearText display techniques to mobile phones. It explains the design rationale for a freely available iPhone application to read books from the International Children’s Digital Library. Through a combination of applied image processing, a zoomable user interface, and a process of working with children to develop the detailed design, we present an interface that supports clear reading of scanned picture books in multiple languages on a mobile phone.