The Need for Speed: Responsive eReaders

Electronic paper is taking off in consumer products. While current eReaders satisfy the needs of linear reading tasks, frustration exists in the academic community because current eReaders don't provide the interactivity required for research and study. Ricoh Innovations has developed techniques for flipping pages quickly and marking up ePaper. The need for interactivity will be discussed and several advances in ePaper responsiveness will be demonstrated during Barrus's presentation.

Kurt Piersol is a senior research and research team leader at the Ricoh California Research Center in Menlo Park CA. His group, the Shared Media Group, conducts research into how documents of all sorts are shared between people and computers. Kurt was previously a Distinguished Engineer at Apple Computer Inc., where he was the User Interface lead for the first public version of Mac OS X, and was responsible for the creation of AppleScript and several other Apple technologies. Before Apple, Kurt worked at Xerox commercializing technologies from Xerox PARC, and produced some of the first commercial products to use object-oriented programming technology.