A new presentation method we are exploring places text one after another in the z-dimension as shown in Figure 4. We refer to this method as Landscape. Three dimensional perspective is used and the reader controls the viewpoint. The default viewing position is slightly above the plane of text. For reading, a user presses a mouse button to fly past the message-as if flying over a highway of text.
Movement is confined to one degree, forward and backward.
The user controls the speed in which she moves over the text. Since a user can move and stop as she chooses, she is able to determine her own pace through the message. An example of reading using the Landscape method. This paper presents our approach to enriching the expressivity of written communication on electronic media. We described specific design experiments on conveying tone of voice through dynamic treatment of text as well as presentation methods we are exploring.