Paper Info
Title
A diary study of children's user experience with EBooks using flow theory as framework
Abstract
This paper describes a diary study aimed at evaluating the User Experience (UX) of 7 to 12 years old children when interacting with eBooks. The goal was to understand whether, in a context of leisure reading, enhanced eBooks provide a better reading experience than basic eBooks. We took inspiration from Csikszentmihalyi's Flow theory to define a benchmark for evaluating the reading experience, and then by means of the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) and an adapted version of the Flow Short Scale (FKS) we investigated and collected data on the reading experience of two groups of children: one group read an enhanced eBook while the other read a basic version of the same eBook. Following a mixedmethod approach, with quantitative analysis we verified whether participants who read the enhanced eBook had a better reading experience, while with qualitative analysis we tried to understand why. The results showed that interactive and multimedia enrichments (readaloud narration in particular) had a positive effect on children's experience with the enhanced eBook.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2593968.2593978
IDC
Keywords
Field
DocType
experience sampling method,childcomputer interaction,evaluation/methodology,reading experience,ebook,leisure reading,electronic book,user experience,ludic reading
User experience design,Electronic book,Computer science,Experience sampling method,Narrative,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.80
16
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luca Colombo1423.58
Monica Landoni246165.73