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A System for Social Reading based on EPUB3

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Toshiyuki Amagasa,

Hiroyuki KitagawaAuthors Info & Claims

IIWAS '13: Proceedings of International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services

Pages 72 - 76

https://doi.org/10.1145/2539150.2539238

Published: 02 December 2013 Publication History

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This paper proposes a system for social reading based on EPUB3, a standardized format for EPUB publications. The system is to collect and manage reading-related information, such as EPUB publications' metadata, bookmarks, and annotations, as well as users' behavioral information, such as the time and the location at which the users read the e-books, the timing when they turned the pages, etc. The system not only allows the users to share the reading-related information with each other, but also enables them to extract useful information out of the stored data. We present an overview of the proposed social reading system based on EPUB3, followed by the prototype implementation using Readium, a reference implementation of EPUB3 reader.

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Itenge HMuashekele CChamunorwa MWinschiers‐Theophilus HBrereton MSoro A(2022)Design and evaluation of a social and embodied multiplayer reading game to engage primary school learners in NamibiaBritish Journal of Educational Technology10.1111/bjet.1327153:6(1571-1590)Online publication date: 5-Sep-2022
https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13271
Choi JKim SLim SGajos KMankoff JHarrison C(2017)The Feedback Block Model for an Adaptive E-BookAdjunct Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology10.1145/3131785.3131834(127-128)Online publication date: 20-Oct-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3131785.3131834
Kataoka EAmagasa TKitagawa HAnderst-Kotsis GIndrawan-Santiago M(2015)A social reading system for EPUB publicationsProceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services10.1145/2837185.2837228(1-10)Online publication date: 11-Dec-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2837185.2837228

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A System for Social Reading based on EPUB3
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
      1. Hypertext / hypermedia creation
2. Information systems

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Itenge HMuashekele CChamunorwa MWinschiers‐Theophilus HBrereton MSoro A(2022)Design and evaluation of a social and embodied multiplayer reading game to engage primary school learners in NamibiaBritish Journal of Educational Technology10.1111/bjet.1327153:6(1571-1590)Online publication date: 5-Sep-2022
https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13271
Choi JKim SLim SGajos KMankoff JHarrison C(2017)The Feedback Block Model for an Adaptive E-BookAdjunct Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology10.1145/3131785.3131834(127-128)Online publication date: 20-Oct-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3131785.3131834
Kataoka EAmagasa TKitagawa HAnderst-Kotsis GIndrawan-Santiago M(2015)A social reading system for EPUB publicationsProceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services10.1145/2837185.2837228(1-10)Online publication date: 11-Dec-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2837185.2837228

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