A system for the collaborative reading of digital books with the partially sighted

Snelgrove, W. Xavier; Baecker, Ronald M.

doi:10.1145/1871854.1871870

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“…If user-recorded audio is available, ALLT will play it; otherwise, it falls back to the TTS engine (which our participants sometimes called the "computer voice"). This record and playback mode was included in order to support activities where individuals chose to read aloud together, or to create a recording that could be accessed later [11].…”

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“…Of course, children are not the only types of people with whom one might sit down and read; reading together can be a pleasurable activity for people of any age. Other examples include reading with senior citizens who might have visual or motor impairments [11], or simply sharing a book with a friend sitting next to you. E-reading in the home for purposes of pleasure is still underexplored, despite the success of e-readers for individuals reading on their own.…”

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Reading together as a Leisure Activity: Implications for E-reading

Massimi

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Attarwala

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Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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Abstract.Reading from devices such as Kindles, Nooks, and tablets ("ereaders") is an increasingly common practice. A primary reason users purchase e-readers is to read for pleasure, as opposed to reading for work or school purposes. With paper, people sometimes read together from a single book (e.g., reading a bedtime story with a child) -a practice we call partnered reading. This practice, and the goals of e-reading for pleasure more generally, remain underexplored in the HCI literature. This paper contributes findings from a deployment study wherein participants used an e-reader application to read with a partner. These findings (a) provide descriptive accounts of how people use ereaders to read together, and (b) identify opportunities to improve the design of e-readers to support partnered e-reading for pleasure.

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Reading together as a Leisure Activity: Implications for E-reading

Massimi

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Attarwala

et al. 2013

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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“…Snelgrove and Baecker [14] propose a collaborative reading environment for digital books, specifically designed for the partially sighted. The system allows users to record the audio of a book being read aloud, which is synchronized with the text.…”

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3rd BooksOnline workshop

Kazai

Brusilovsky

2010

Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

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The goal of the 3rd BooksOnline Workshop is to bring together researchers and industry practitioners in information retrieval, digital libraries, e-books, human computer interaction, publishing industry, and online book services to foster progress on addressing challenges and exploring opportunities around large collections of digital books and complementary media. Towards this goal, the workshop programme consists of contributions both from academia and industry, including two keynote talks: James Crawford from Google Books and John Mark Ockerbloom from the University of Pennsylvania.

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“…Audio books are a replacement for printed books that address the issue of poor vision; however, they are expensive to produce (or rely on volunteers such as the Librivox project [5]) and lack the social interaction aspect of reading together -surveys such as [2] found that a third of partially sighted (and over half of blind) individuals read in this way. This was the inspiration for ALLT ([1] and [7]), which goes beyond enabling access to a read-aloud book, and allows a collaborative reading experience in which people read together, with the recorded audio synchronized with the book content and later played back (in a familiar voice) by the visually-impaired user.…”

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An accessible, large-print, listening and talking e-book to support families reading together

Attarwala

Munteanu

Baecker

2013

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices and Services

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Reading is an activity that is not only informative or pleasurable, but can have significant social benefits. Especially in a family setting, it is part of the interaction between children and their parents, it helps create a bond between children and their grandparents, and even bring adults and their older parents closer. However, with families increasingly living or spending time in different locations or managing busy schedules that afford very little time together, the social opportunities enabled by reading are often lost. Furthermore, reading can be a challenge for older adults or for those with impaired eyesight. To address these problems, we are proposing ALLT -an Accessible, Large-Print, Listening and Talking e-book. ALLT is a tablet-based e-reading application that enhances the capabilities of e-book readers through customizable and intelligent accessibility features. It provides support for asynchronous "reading together" by synchronizing the audio recording of one user with the text that is later read by another user. This addresses the needs of a variety of users, from visually impaired adults reading together with a loved one, to children being able to replay an interactive story previously read together with their grandparents. In this demo paper we present ALLT's features and detail how they support asynchronously reading together.

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A system for the collaborative reading of digital books with the partially sighted

Cited by 8 publications

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Reading together as a Leisure Activity: Implications for E-reading

Reading together as a Leisure Activity: Implications for E-reading

3rd BooksOnline workshop

An accessible, large-print, listening and talking e-book to support families reading together

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