2010 Proceeding- General Chairs:
- Gabriella Kazai,
- Peter Brusilovsky
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the BooksOnline'10 Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories and Complementary Media. In its third year, the workshop series is gaining increased momentum benefiting from the rapid advance of digital books and eReaders, encouraging research in several related areas. The aim of the BooksOnline workshops is to bring together researchers and industry practitioners in information retrieval, digital libraries, ebooks, human computer interaction, publishing industry, and on-line book services to foster progress on addressing challenges and exploring opportunities around large collections of digital books and complementary media. This year's workshop continues to provide a forum to follow community progress, share results, highlight and address issues, and evolve the research agenda.
BooksOnline'10 boasts a high quality programme, including keynote addresses by James Crawford from Google Books and by John Mark Ockerbloom from the University of Pennsylania. From the accepted papers two main themes emerged: 1) Issues relating to building suitable infrastructure for online book collections and for the evaluation of the applications and services that make use of such collections, and 2) Opportunities relating to the social or collaborative reading and annotation of books and issues relating to the design of suitable eReaders. We hope that these proceedings will serve as a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners.
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The sBook: towards social and personalized learning experiences
Despite the widespread use of Web 2.0 techniques in our entire surrounding environment, which tend to make it more social, more dynamic and driven by users, some domains have not really changed yet. This is the case for (e-)books which reading remains ...
Real-time document collaboration using iPads
This paper presents a real-time collaborative interface for reading groups. We exploit the light and portable properties of iPad hardware to facilitate an intimate interaction experience that gives users the ability to simultaneously mark up their own ...
HCI design principles for ereaders
As interactive digital documents are becoming more and more commonplace, we find ourselves searching for new ways to make good use of them. The fast delivery and large storage capacity that digital devices offer, make reading from bulky physical books ...
Ebooks children would want to read and engage with
This paper describes an effort to build a bookshelf of electronic books for children. This will then be made available for researchers to run user studies. Reading is a very personal experience and, when considering children 6-9 years old, even reading ...
Working with first nations: on-demand book service
The "On-Demand Book Service (ODBS)" is a collaboration between First Nations communities in Northern Ontario and academic researchers from the University of Toronto. The aim of the ODBS is to bridge the gap between physical and digital libraries. This ...
Implementing new knowledge environments: building upon research foundations to understand books and reading in the digital age
In this paper, we present an overview of the first year work and plans for the second year work of the INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) research group, a large international, interdisciplinary research team studying reading and texts, both ...
'Biblioteca de livros digitais': the privileged space of a transliterate experience for children reading online
When you digitalize a different version, or even when you create a book digitally, that implies choices of format, codification and standards which are going to definitely change our experience as readers. Whilst analyzing the Portuguese project '...
Evaluating e-books
In this paper, we discuss the importance of evaluation and in particular the impact of user studies on the progress and improvement of e-books and their usability, with particular attention to their design and functionalities aimed at increasing overall ...
A system for the collaborative reading of digital books with the partially sighted: project proposal
We propose a collaborative reading environment for digital books for use by and with individuals with failing vision. The system would record the audio of the person reading aloud and synchronize it with the text. The proposal includes two major ...
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