Sociable reading: “a system for supporting sociable reading in a dual screen environment"

• Autor(a) principal: Caires, Roberto
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/1553
• topic: Sociable reading; Reading; Informatics Engineering; .; Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia; Domínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática

Exploring ways in which the social aspect of reading for pleasure can be supported and improved is the motivation for this project. A system for supporting sociable reading in a dual screen environment was developed. The dual screen used was a mobile device (Tablet) and TV, in which the annotations created while reading a book on Tablet could be displayed on the TV. The OS of the devices is Android and for each one an application to be connected through Wi-Fi network was created. The Tablet app was developed using a library MuPDF to read books, while the TV app was developed by the Phonegap framework. Usability tests in two different locations were performed: In Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-iti) and in the Library - Biblioteca Regional da Madeira. After the tests with final users were concluded, the TV interface was considered adequate and very encouraged. We noted some difficulties in the first interpretation of the navigation commands but, once the commands were learnt, the system was easy to use. It was clear that possible places to implement the system would be in schools, work places and at home.