We present data-driven log file analyses of an electronic text book for history, called the mBook, to support teachers in preparing lessons for their students. We represent user sessions as contextualised Markov processes of user sessions and propose a probabilistic clustering using expectation maximisation to detect groups of similar (i) sessions and (ii) users.

While the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) is steadily expanding, electronic books (eBooks) remain a niche market. In this article, it is first postulated that (1) specialized contents and device independence can make Web based eBooks compete with paper prints, and that (2) adaptive features that can be implemented by client-side computing are relevant for eBooks, while more complex forms of adaptat...

With the technical development of the reading equipment, e-books have witnessed a gradual and steady increase in sales in recent years. Last year, smart phones announced to be able to perform additional functions as e-book reading devices, making it possible for retailers selling e-books for smart phones (SPR) such as iPhone to differentiate with those selling e-books for specific reading equip...

Introduction The first electronic books (ebook) have already appeared on the market, e.g. Rocket eBook and Softbook. By looking at these two examples we can describe or define an ebook as a mobile, physical device to display electronic (i.e. digital) documents. It differs from desktop and notebook computers which are still the primary interfaces to electronic documents by its highly specialized...

In recent years, the e-book has become more and more popular among college students, and it is much easier to be installed and set up in electronic equipment, such as laptop, Kindle, or IPad. A random sample (N=80) of undergraduate (n=25) and graduate (n=55) students not only use the e-book to read in class and library, but also at public places and at home. Of the respondents, 46% have a part-...

50.1 Ιntroduction ...........................50-l 50.2 Background and Related Work.............. ......50-1 Ηow Do B1ind People Use Computers? . Electronic Books . Αccessib1e e-Book Reading Αpplications . Research ΑppΙications Αccessible to the Blind 50.3 The Starlight Platform........ ..........................50-4 Development Ρrocess . The Starlight Reader . The Starlight Writer 50.4 Evaluati...

This article concerns research based on handwritten document and electronic books. We present here the first achievements of a Hypermedia Edit and Read Station (HERS) devoted to the browsing and the edition of hypermedia documents from literary material including document images. Our purpose is twofold. First, capabilities are offered to transcribe manuscripts. Second, tools are offered to orga...

In recent years, the publishing industry has undergone significant change related to the emergence of information technology and communication, leading to the emergence of electronic books substitutes the traditional book. This new reality has an impact on the cultural industry and requires the adaptation of public regulations affecting the production and consumption of eBooks, avoiding situati...

Introduction This paper, based on three recent research projects, addresses some of the issues that are central to the acceptance and integration of electronic scholarly monographs and textbooks (henceforth referred to as e-monographs) into the academic library. The findings suggest that the almost casual use of terms like 'digital library' and 'hybrid library' belies the reality of a slow acce...

The European ‘MC-squared’ project has a number of ‘Communities of Interest’ (CoI) (Fischer, 2001) in European countries that work on digital, interactive, creative, mathematics textbooks, called cBooks. A community of interest consists of several stakeholders from various ‘Communities of Practice’ (Wenger, 1998). In this paper we outline the creation of an English CoI describing the development...