Paranga: a book-shaped device with tactile feedback

Abstract

A flipbook is the one of plays featuring page-turning action that is familiar to us in our life. It gives us not only funny visual feedback that a written character looks as if it moves, but also tactile information when pieces of paper touch user's thumb page by page. In recent e-reader devices such as iPad, we can also see page-flipping animations when users turn pages. E-book generally does not provide any tactile feelings of paper in reading a book.