Research on E-Book Application Interface Based on Mental Model

Abstract:

Mental model is the key to meet user’s needs, improve effectiveness and reduce critical errors of the interaction in the e-book application interface development. Constructing app function rules based on mental model is a research focus in menu interface design of e-book application. In this paper, college students were selected as target user group with comparison between light users and heavy users. By interviews and observations on users’ behavior of reading e-book and paper book, thus a scheme of function definition of e-book app based on users’ goal and behavior needs was formed, which can be applied to construct interface layout based on college students’ mental models, thus be propitious to enhancing user experience.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 731)
• Pages: 242-247
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.731.242
• Online since: January 2015
• Authors: Jie Zhang*, Qiang Wang, Yan Shi
• Keywords: E-Book Application, Function Definition, Interface Design, Mental Model

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