focus group study e-book readers for the academic environment
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Focus Group Study E-book Readers for the academic Environment. Risa Teshigawara , Veronica Gomez December 19 th , 2012 . Introduction. Many people use e-book readers instead of carrying paper books around with them. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Focus Group StudyE-book Readers for the academic Environment
Risa Teshigawara, Veronica GomezDecember 19th, 2012
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Introduction Many people use e-book
readers instead of carrying paper books around with them.
It is rare to see university students using e-book readers for class or to study with.
e-book readers appear to be used mainly leisure reading *Pew Research Center for the People and Press
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Objective of this Study To discuss how e-book readers can be
improved in order to be used in academic environments
To gather useful information, such as student and faculty opinions, suggestions, and ideas for e-book readers
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Research Questions What are the advantages and
disadvantages that the use of e-book readers may provide to students?
Are there hardware and/or software improvements that can be made to e-book readers to make them better suited for academic use?
What functionalities should e-book readers offer to be most useful for students?
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Setting Place: Classroom PV-1 @ AUP Time: November 15th, 2012
15:20 – 16:40
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Participants• A total of 6 participants
were comprised of students and faculty.
• A Computer Science professor was invited in order to provide insight from a faculty perspective
• 2 Librarians attended and contributed their opinions
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SONY PRS-T2 Nexus 7Storage Capacity
2GB 8, 16, or 32GB
Display E Ink display / backlit E-ink
LCD capacitive touch screen
Size 173 × 110 × 9.1 mm 198.5×120×10.56 mmWeight 167g 340gScreen Size
Screen size (90 × 120mm)
180mm diagonal with 16:00 wide screen
Battery Up to 2 months Up to 9.5 hoursTouch yes yes
Comparison of the two Devices
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PROCEDURE
Discussion lasted for one hour
20 minutes of testing time of the devices were allotted to participants
Participants filled out pre-focus group questionnaire
Informed Consent Forms were distributed
Participants were arranged to sit in a circular formation
1 moderater and 1 note-taker
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Pre-focus group questionnaire Name E-mail Address Gender Age Academic Year Major/ Faculty Position Which tools/resources do you use to complete your
class assignments? Do you own an e-book reader? If so, which one? If you do not have an e-book reader, which device
have you used to read?
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Result of the questionnaire
Information resources and tools most used by participants.
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Results of Device TestingNexus 7
Pros Attractive screen display Wi-Fi access Page flipping animation is
clear Fast Able to change font
quickly Easier to concentrate
when reading versus Sony reader
Easy to bookmark a page
Cons Feels heavy for the size of
the device The text to speech option
was difficult to deactivate Touch screen is intimidating
since a few errors were made when attempting to flip the page or use another feature
Bright backlit screen is tiring on the eyes
Clumsy highlighting buttons
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Results of Device TestingSony PRS-T2
Pros Lightweight and
compact
Cons
Slow Difficult to bookmark a
page Difficult to tell when a page
has been flipped and the flickering of the screen, which indicated a page flip gives the impression that, the battery of the device is dying
Need for two hands when using the device
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Features requested by participants for an improved e-book reader
Hardware1. Large storage capacity 2. Resistance of the devices3. Have two separate physical
screens just like paper books so that two different applications may be opened and viewed at the same time
Software1. Internet access2. Online dictionary resource3. Translation of words4. Citation5. Easy annotations6. Create notes and bookmarks7. Ability to switch the device
interface language8. Text to speech feature so
that you can listen to a book hands-free
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Would you buy an e-book reader for academic use? Regardless of the
improvements that the participants had themselves suggested, a majority felt that they would still not purchase an e-book reader
Yes; 2; 33%
No; 4; 67%
Chart 3: Percentage of participants who would buy an ideal e-book reader satisfying all the requirements they had expressed.
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Discussion current e-book readers do not meet the
needs and wants of the majority of the academic community.
Even if e-book readers were adapted to include the list of desired features expressed by participants, it would not ensure that their old study/work habits would be adaptable to a new electronic portable version
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Conclusion Most of the participants would not use
the devices for academic use Students are more used to reading on
the paper books. There were only 6 participants, so a
research with more people involved would have better results
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Merci!