Realizing a New Environment for Browsing/Reading Many and Various Picture Books by Setting a Digital Table in a Children's Room

2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21500103
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Media informatics/Database
• Research Institution: Oita University
• Principal Investigator: ITO Tetsuro 大分大学, 工学部, 教授 (30029558)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): NAKASHIMA Makoto 大分大学, 工学部, 准教授 (00253774) ; SATO Masaaki 別府大学, 文学部, 教授 (30162473)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2011
• Keywords: 電子図書館 / 子ども室 / 絵本 / シェルフブラウザ / ブックリーダ / グループ読書 / 統一化ビュー / 読書環境

Research Abstract

We aim to build a new browsing/reading environment, in which children's browsing and reading of picture books together with families and/or friends is steadily enhanced, by installing the BrowsReader in the children's room of a public library or a kindergarten. The children, by gathering around the BrowsReader, can browse many and various picture books and then choose and read a book by flipping pages on it. After reproducing each printed, digitized or web picture book as a surrogate picture book, we first introduce two basic notions ; an abstracted bookshelf, which presents the front-cover images of the surrogate picture books in the form where all are linearly arranged, with some of the images bundled in places, and a unified view, which presents each page of any surrogate picture book in a form that seems like a printed picture book's page. We realized multiple new browsing/reading environments in the children's rooms of Oita Prefectural library, Beppu University attached kindergarten, etc., and clarified the effects of the BrowsReader in the children's activity in browsing/reading together.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Enhancing children's activity in browsing/reading together by the installation of the BrowsReader in the children's room of a library (2012)
  • Author(s): J. Liu, T. Ito, N. Toyokuni, K. Sato, and M. Nakashima
  • Journal Title: Information Processing and Management
  • DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.ipm.2012.02.005
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Tolerant Sharing of a Single-user Application Among Multiple Users in Collaborative Work (2010)
  • Author(s): Y. Abe, K. Matsusako, K. Kirimura, M. Tamura, and M. Nakashima, T. Ito
  • Journal Title: Adjunct Proceedings of CSCW2010, Savannah, Georgia, USA Pages: 555-556
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] ブラウズリーダで冊子体絵本を扱うための絵本情報の表示法 (2011)
  • Author(s): 結城竜也
  • Organizer: 電子情報通信学会九州支部学生会講演会
  • Place of Presentation: 佐賀
  • Year and Date: 2011-09-28
• [Presentation] ブラウズリーダ上の電子絵本を手にとって読むためのタブレットPCを用いた読書機構 (2011)
  • Author(s): 浅野仁彦
  • Organizer: 電気関係学会九州支部連合会
  • Place of Presentation: 佐賀
  • Year and Date: 2011-09-27
• [Presentation] 大量の絵本を納めた絵本棚の作成と同時メニューの考えを取り入れた絵本棚ブラウジング (2011)
  • Author(s): 浅野仁彦
  • Organizer: インタラクション
  • Place of Presentation: 東京
  • Year and Date: 2011-03-11
• [Presentation] ウェブ絵本に対する統一化ビューの考えを取り入れた子ども電子図書室での蔵書の充実 (2010)
  • Author(s): 豊国菜々
  • Organizer: 情報科学技術フォーラム
  • Place of Presentation: 福岡
  • Year and Date: 2010-09-08
• [Presentation] 子ども電子図書室における絵本情報の相互提供とウェブ絵本への対応 (2010)
  • Author(s): 益吉和哉
  • Organizer: 火の国シンポジウム
  • Place of Presentation: 宮崎
  • Year and Date: 2010-03-04
• [Presentation] 子ども電子図書室への配架を目指した絵本表紙画像の自動取得 (2009)
  • Author(s): 三原光貴
  • Organizer: 電子情報通信学会九州支部学生会講演会
  • Place of Presentation: 飯塚
  • Year and Date: 2009-09-30
• [Remarks] 毎日新聞: 2010年10月28日(地方版)。
• [Remarks] 大分合同新聞: 2012年2月25日(宇佐版), 2011年9月15日(別府版), 2010年10月28日(大分版), 2011年12月25日(由布版)
• [Remarks] 今日新聞: 2011年9月12日(夕刊)。