Multimedia Book Research Articles

Global perspectives: library professionals' views on multimedia books in airlines

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the potential impact and passenger perceptions of integrating multimedia books within airline services, aiming to elucidate the evolving landscape of in-flight entertainment and reading experiences.Design/methodology/approachA quantitative research methodology was used, using a structured questionnaire distributed to presenters at the International Federation of Library Associations.FindingsAnalysis revealed varying passenger interest in multimedia books, with approximately 57.7% displaying engagement, while 40.4% demonstrated limited interest or none. However, a notable majority (60.6%) preferred multimedia books over traditional print books during flights. Furthermore, 90.4% perceived a positive impact of multimedia books on flight reading experiences, leading to increased satisfaction (81.7%) and a high likelihood of recommending airlines offering such content (91.3%).Research limitations/implicationsThe study's limitations include a specific focus on International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) presenters, potentially limiting broader generalisations. Further research might explore the preferences of a wider demographic range and incorporate qualitative aspects to deepen understanding. Airlines could leverage multimedia books to enhance passenger satisfaction, attract diverse audiences and foster cultural inclusivity within in-flight entertainment.Originality/valueThis study contributes insights into the evolving landscape of in-flight entertainment, emphasising the significant potential and positive impact of integrating multimedia books within airline services. It underscores the importance of catering to diverse passenger preferences and enhancing overall satisfaction during air travel.

A DIGITAL LIFE STORY BOOK ACTIVITY FOR OLDER ADULTS WITH MEMORY DIFFICULTIES: PROGRAM EVALUATION

Abstract Reminiscence activities are based on maintaining a core set of personal memories to aid self-continuity (Woods, 2012). Some interventions find limited effects (Charlesworth et al, 2016) but with participants reporting high satisfaction with the program. The aims of the current study were to: (i) demonstrate feasibility of intervention delivery to older individuals with memory difficulties, and (ii) provide analyses of program efficacy using a pre-posttest, control group design. Participants (N = 45; Mage = 76.12) were randomized to the Life Story Book intervention or Waitlist Control. A Life Story Book Interview was developed, using five evidence-based principles of autobiographical memory. Personalized multimedia books were created and reviewed by participants for fourteen days. To assess feasibility, participants in the intervention completed a memory quality questionnaire and feedback survey. Those who reviewed Life Story Books reported improved memory quality pre-post intervention, t(22) = -2.39, p = .026. Participants also positively rated their intervention experience at post-test, (M = 4.46/5). All participants completed self-related questionnaires (e.g., self-continuity, self-esteem) at pretest-posttest. No measure showed significant effects. Our results represent a conundrum for researchers. We provide evidence of feasibility of, and participant enthusiasm for, this reminiscence-based intervention. As seen in the literature, however, (Elfrink et al., 2021), sensitivity to detect pretest-postest change remains a challenge. The current study highlights participants positive reactions to reminiscence-based Life Story Books. Findings are discussed in terms of methods for assessing intervention efficacy in individuals with memory decline.

Design Interactive Multimedia Book Sanggar Doka Tawa Tana Using The Design Sprint Method

Tourism is a journey from one place to another carried out by a group of people or individual for a certain period of time with the aim of traveling that requires planning previously. This is supported by current technological advances, one of which is multimedia technology including information technology. This multimedia technology has made a significant contribution to the tourism sector by generating the ability to promote and develop tourist objects in any location with greater ease, less cost, and more flexibility. One of the attractions that is developing at the time of current technological advances, namely the Sanggar Doka Tawa Tana. This studio is one of the leading tourist attractions in the province of NTT that can attract tourists to visit. However Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the number of tourists visiting has decreased drastically. But in 2021 the number of tourists visiting began to increase. So in this research development of EPUB-based interactive multimedia books to promote and provide the latest information for potential tourists related to the Sanggar Doka Tawa Tana. On book design interactive multimedia of Sanggar Doka Tawa Tana, the method used is the design sprint method where In the method there are 5 frameworks, namely understand, diverge, decide, prototype and validate.

Forensic Analysis on Streaming Multimedia

Since the advent of technology and digitalization of multimedia, there has been a massive increase in cybercrime. During streaming, with the availability of a network or internet source, multimedia; audio and visual can easily be accessed whiles being aired live. This technology dates as far back as 1990s. Similar to still videos and images, the user is able to download, pause, reverse or forward the show. The ability to stream multimedia has made it easier for users to partake or retrieve multimedia from the comfort of their homes, offices or personal spaces without necessarily being present. However, there are several challenges that affect the functionality of this technology, slow network connection and cybercrime. The issue of slow network may easily be handled by network providers, but cybercrimes has become rampant over the years. These attackers, also known as cyber criminals, use various activities to attack data. Some of their activities include phishing, data breach, identity theft and harassment. The paper has been written to assess forensic analysis of streaming multimedia. While exploring existing studies, it was realized that despite the rich availability of digital image forensics, video forensics hasn’t been explored much. This is because of the difficulty involved in analyzing the video data. Video data is always presented in a compressed form, unlike still images that are obtained in their original state. The compressed data often cancels or totally compromises the existing fingerprints, hence making it difficult to monitor or recover data. It was also revealed that, much has not been done so far as the research area is concerned. Keywords: Mobile Forensics, Cybersecurity, Streaming, Media, Video, Networks BOOK Chapter ǀ Research Nexus in IT, Law, Cyber Security & Forensics. Open Access. Distributed Free Citation: Emmanuel Tettey Okan (2022): Forensic Analysis On Streaming Multimedia Book Chapter Series on Research Nexus in IT, Law, Cyber Security & Forensics. Pp 221-226 www.isteams.net/ITlawbookchapter2022. dx.doi.org/10.22624/AIMS/CRP-BK3-P36

Digital Forensics In Multimedia

Digital forensics and multimedia forensics are rapidly growing disciplines where electronic information is extracted and interpreted using scientifically accepted and validated processes, to be used in and outside of a court of law. As personal computing and the internet becomes more widespread, these two fields are becoming increasingly important in law enforcement and cybercrime investigation.Digital forensics involves investigating computer systems and digital artefacts in general, while multimedia forensics is a sub-topic of digital forensics which focuses on extracting and analyzing contents such as images, videos, and audio to produce forensic evidence from both regular computer systems and special multimedia devices, such as digital cameras, voice recorders etc. This paper seeks to shed some light on digital forensics in multimedia, methods of authentication and challenges. Keywords: Forensics, Multimedia, Scrutiny, Analysis, Video, Voice, Data, Camera, Authentication BOOK Chapter ǀ Research Nexus in IT, Law, Cyber Security & Forensics. Open Access. Distributed Free Citation: Frey John Wisdom (2022): Digital Forensics In Multimedia Book Chapter Series on Research Nexus in IT, Law, Cyber Security & Forensics. Pp 239-250 www.isteams.net/ITlawbookchapter2022. dx.doi.org/10.22624/AIMS/CRP-BK3-P39

Information and Communication Technology to Help Students Create Their Own Books the Dialogic Way

The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in language learning allows students to be more engaged and innovative. The present article explores the potential use of technology in the planning, drafting, reviewing, and publishing stages of students’ own book creation. First, the use of digital tools to create books in an interactive and engaging process and format is discussed. Then, the varieties of multimedia books created using ICT are explored. Next, the use of technology for sharing ideas, communicating opinions, collaborating, and reviewing others’ books is explained. The article also describes some collaborative methods students may employ in creating books. Finally, it discusses learners’ development of technology and media literacy in the creation of their own books.

NAUČNO MIŠLjENjE I UMETNIKOVA IDEJA

Through the analysis of parts – from font to audio recordings, the paper tries to point out those important elements from which Dušan Matić, a poet, constructed his works, but which were sufficiently stimulating for authors who dealt with certain possibilities of a multimedia digital book.

Interview with Dene Grigar

Dene Grigar is Professor and Director of The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver whose research focuses on the creation, curation, preservation, and criticism of Electronic Literature, specifically building multimedial environments and experiences for live performance, installations, and curated spaces; desktop computers; and mobile media devices. She has authored 14 media works such as "Curlew" (2014), "A Villager's Tale" (2011), the "24-Hour Micro E-Lit Project" (2009), "When Ghosts Will Die" (2008), and "Fallow Field: A Story in Two Parts" (2005), as well as 56 scholarly articles and three books. She also curates exhibits of electronic literature and media art, mounting shows at the British Computer Society and the Library of Congress and for the Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) and the Modern Language Association (MLA), among other venues. With Stuart Moulthrop (U of Wisconsin Milwaukee) she developed the methodology for documenting born digital media, a project that culminated in an open-source, multimedia book, entitled "Pathfinders" (2015), and book of media art criticism, entitled "Traversals" (2017), for The MIT Press. She is President of the Electronic Literature Organization, Associate Editor of "Leonardo Reviews," and "Literary Studies in the Digital Age (LSDA)," and a series editor for "Electronic Literature," with Bloomsbury Press. In 2017 she was awarded the Lewis E. and Stella G. Buchanan Distinguished Professorship by her university. She also directs the Electronic Literature Lab at WSUV. In her spare time she runs, collects wine, does yoga, and misses the Gulf Coast.

Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690–1840. Aileen Douglas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. x+229.

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The Graphic African, the Illustrator’s Gaze, and The Grandissimes

The Graphic African, the Illustrator’s Gaze, and The Grandissimes Adam Sonstegard A set of images from a novel set in New Orleans at the turn of the twentieth century both invokes and deflects interracial seductions. In one of these images, a nearly naked enslaved man lies sensuously recumbent as he returns the viewer’s gaze (Fig. 1). In a second, a mixed-race woman almost reciprocates that same gaze as she lies in her sickbed (Fig. 2). Bras Coupé, the man in the first image, may potentially embrace a white infant who is toddling into his threatening, brawny arms. Palmyre, the voodoo priestess in the second, may potentially invite another viewer, whom we do not see, to join her in bed. These images, by artist Alfred Herter, seem surprising for an illustrated book published in 1899, for they anticipate a later era’s understanding of racial identity, depictions of sexuality, and willingness to show racially intermediate figures. They belong to the earliest set of illustrations ever rendered to accompany George Washington Cable’s novel The Grandissimes, first published, without illustrations, in 1880, and recounting a historical narrative set in 1803. In the novel, these characters marry without reproducing; in the imagery, they appear only in separate picture frames. The images do not conform to the hypersexual “brute” or the “tragic mulatta” stereotypes, but are, rather, what I call “graphic Africans”: artistic recreations by Herter, a white graphic artist, they are textual accompaniments for Cable, a Caucasian novelist. Both men worked with existing conventions for treating “race” in what counted as multimedia book publication in 1899. At that time, nine in ten whites, but only five in ten blacks, were literate; whites dominated book and magazine publishing and buying markets, as well as receptive reading audiences. Graphic Africans, then, were only black or biracial by several removes, as images of, but not by or for, African American readers or [End Page 195] viewers.1 These images only purport to cast seductive gazes across color lines. Complexions suggest families’ mixed-race heritages, but actually manifest the artist’s fine shading techniques. The images objectify these bodies as spectacles, even as the characters depicted seem human enough to return the viewer’s gaze. As “graphic Africans,” they so depart from Cable’s verbal descriptions of Creole, racial intermarriage, that they demand an article-length exploration. This illustrator’s gaze, as I term it, does not merely adapt the novel visually but revises the narrative’s optics and discretion for depicting historic New Orleans. The artist lightly renders biracial complexions, leaving reader-viewers with “invisible blackness,” undetectable in Herter’s pictures, but very real to Cable’s characters. The images segregate Cable’s characters and interrupt seductive, hypnotic gazes—even when Cable’s passages feature those races and castes inter mingling. The skin tones Herter renders in other images scarcely distinguish Caribbean Creole from mulatto from Euro-American, making the illustrations grayscale caricatures of a society that once took barely perceptible racial differences much too seriously. Graphic Africans blur black/white lines, guiltily reminding many of precisely what they did not wish to see: forebears’ fathering of mulattos and octoroons, ancestors’ introduction of shades of gray, literally and figuratively, into “pure” Caucasian categories. The illustrator, working in the days of Jim Crow segregation, increased disenfranchisement, and Plessy vs. Ferguson ’s “separate but equal” legislation, screens out an earlier era’s interracial transgressions, illuminates “pure” citizens, and obscures biracial half-castes. Beginning a revisionist history of Cable’s novel, the illustrator’s gaze overrides the verbal artist’s narrative eye in the prose, staying discreetly on one side of a color line that the author managed tentatively to have his characters cross. This set of images is in fact more of a crossing of paths than a fully egalitarian artistic collaboration. Active from 1890 through the 1920s, Herter painted portraits, book illustrations, and civic subjects for patrons, museums, and civic bodies: murals for the Massachusetts and Wisconsin capitol buildings, King Arthur and Merlin illustrations for children’s fictions, even posters for Red Cross relief efforts during [End Page 196] World War I. His paintings and murals, some commissioned by the Daughters of...

Developing Interactive Multimedia CD-based Teaching Materials for Teaching Arabic Skill at Arabic Education Department of Islamic State University Sunan Ampel Surabaya

The development of interactive multimedia CD-based teaching materials is urgent because the learning process in the Arabic Education Department is not 100% done as expected. This can be seen from some indicators that have not been achieved in the teaching and learning process. First, the lecturers teaching the same courses of Arabic language skills do not have the same standards of the competencies that students need to achieve, the learning objectives of each meeting and the assessment. Second, the use of interactive multimedia CDs have not been widely used by all lecturers of Arabic language skills. Third, there was no standard of teaching material used by some lecturers who teach the courses of Arabic language skills despite the findings from previous studies that show 25% of students have general high schools background which cause disparate abilities among students in the department. This study is a reseach and development adopting Sugiono’s development stages combined with ADDIE design model and the ASSURE design model which is then termed as ADDIERE design. This study uses mixed qualitative and quantitative methods. The results of this study are the following. First, there is a set of teaching materials comprising a validated and empirically-proven efective an interactive multimedia CD and book. The book consists of 12 chapters with each covers four language skills. The CD combines autoplay, wondershare quiz creator, record, Arabic pad tool and text media, audio and images.

The Impact of Using the Interactive Multimedia Book on Mathematics Learning: A Focus on 7th Grade Students Performance

Two experiments were developed to verify how the use of interactive multimedia books improves students’ school performance in 7th grade math learning. The aim of the study was to compare the performance of students using the Multimedia Interactive Book with non-students in 7th grade mathematics at a primary school in Mozambique, and was guided in two hypotheses. The null hypothesis was: the use of the interactive multimedia book in mathematics learning does not improve students’ performance and the alternative hypothesis was: the use of the interactive multimedia book in mathematics learning improves student’s performance. The learning object was developed from the free web tool Edilim and 44 students aged between 11 and 17 participated in the study. The first experiment had 20 hours of study while the second experiment was 60 hours of study, totalling 80 hours of study. To assess the participants’ cognitive development stage, the clinical method was used: operative tests of number, fluid and length preservation. The results of both experiments indicate that the use of the interactive multimedia book does not improve students’ performance in math learning, corroborating with studies and theses that warn that the use of computers and multimedia resources does not improve students’ performance in math learning.

Action Research of the Multiple Intelligence (MI), Cooperative Learning, and Game-based Teaching into Summer Intensive English Classes for Mixed-level and Mixed-age Students

This study is based on the '2014 the Schweitzer Program' in Taiwan which spanned for four weeks from the 2nd to 29th of August. The lessons included four classes of multimedia picture books and eight game-based lessons. The aim of this research is to describe how to integrate the theory of 'Multiple Intelligence (MI)' by Howard Gardner as well as the theories of 'Cooperative Learning', and 'Game-Based Teaching' into summer intensive English classes among mixed-level and mixed-age students. There were 20 participants composed of 13 fifth graders and seven sixth graders with equal members of each gender. The study followed a qualitative action research methodology with the use of interviews, documents and observations. The students had two 60-minute English lessons and one 60-minute multimedia picture book session per week for four weeks with the researcher. This study provided a prototype of lesson plan designs for a group of mixed-level and mixed-age students. Results show that merging games into the teaching content and using 'Game-based Teaching' is significantly suitable for the mixed group. Based on the results, recommendations were provided for both EFL teachers and EFL schools. During lesson plan design, teachers could merge various games into their lessons especially when intended for students of mixed levels. For the schools, it is best to choose teaching materials that combine text with plenty of activities and classroom games.

Influences of Visual Attention and Reading Time on Children and Adults

ABSTRACTThis study investigates the relationship between visual attention and reading time using a mobile electroencephalography device. The mobile electroencephalography device uses a single channel dry sensor, which easily measures participants’ attention in the real-world reading environment. The results reveal that age significantly influences visual attention and reading time. Adults’ visual attention and reading time are superior to those of children; furthermore, the visual attention and reading time of adults are positively correlated, indicating that the executive function of attention and reading time increases with age. Regarding gender differences, boys’ visual attention is superior to that of girls, whereas female adults exhibit higher visual attention than male adults. Moreover, multimedia picture books substantially enhance boys’ visual attention, whereas girls exhibit low visual attention. This result indicates that multimedia picture books with sound, light, and animation effects are more appealing to boys and thus enhance boys’ attention.

Today’s Tech Literacy Tools: Parental Perceptions of Apps for Preschoolers

Several studies have also shown that literacy software on traditional (i.e., non-touchscreen) computers has a positive effect on children’s emergent literacy. However, as a new technology, interactive multimedia book apps, designed for young children and installed on touchscreen devices, have not been the focus of much previous research and our understanding of their use and impact is limited.

Translating Shanghai

This essay problematizes the translation of one city as another: Shanghai for instance as ‘New York’ or ‘Paris.’ Such tropes have long been popular in literature and journalism. By viewing the issue through the lens of translation, the essay proposes to question the equivalence between cities that such statements presume. Behind the presumption of equivalence are political, cultural, and social ‘Untranslatables’ that emerge at the moment of translation. The paper focuses also on issues of intersemiotic translation that arise in the multimedia book, Disappearing Shanghai. The essay discusses how multiple translations of Shanghai co-operate with, conflict with and defy one another, leading to a constantly changing perspective on the city.

The multimedia book: Report on the early days in an experiment

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Digital multimedia books produced using iBooks Author for pre-operative surgical patient information

Presenting patients with medical information and ensuring informed consent can be difficult due to patients with varying levels of literacy, physical and mental disabilities and spoken languages. Patients obtaining information from external sources, such as the internet, can also be problematic as the information can be irrelevant, inaccurate or misleading. A patient satisfaction study was performed in order to assess the effectiveness of using ebooks in order to communicate pre and post surgical information to neurosurgical patients. 3 digital books were produced using iBooks Author (a free desktop publishing program designed by Apple) including ACDF (anterior cervical discectomy and fusion), lumbar laminectomy and lumbar discectomy. Each book contained written information organised into sections and chapters along with an array of multimedia elements including 3D animations, interactive diagrams, 3D models of anatomy and patient experience videos. 32 volunteer patients were then presented with the digital books via an iPad during their preoperative assessment and then asked to complete a questionnaire. The results demonstrated a demand for this type of digital presentation of medical information and also showed patients no longer felt the need to seek further information from external sources.

Multimedia book apps in a contemporary culture: commerce and innovation, continuity and rupture

Book apps are positioned halfway between the children’s literature sector, in which producers look for works to adapt, and new formats belonging to the electronic medium. This unstable location calls for an interdisciplinary approach in order to analyse different aspects of these products. The effectiveness of literary theories, particularly poststructuralist perspectives, for studying digital literature has been highly questioned over the past decades by Games Studies scholars such as Aarseth. However, the special nature of book apps, which is different from any other kind of electronic literature, requires a reassessment of these ideas. This article explores postmodernist tracks into three book apps, two of them adapted from two postmodern picturebooks, and the other published both as an app and a printed book at the same time. Possible changes of the metafictional variations due to the medium shift are studied, as well as the role of interactivity in the fictional design of the apps. Results show that both literary theories and media-related theories are necessary for a complete analysis of book apps. Keywords: children book apps; postmodernism; literary theory; medium-shift; metafictional picturebooks; interactivity (Published: 15 April 2014) Citation : Nordic Journal of ChildLit Aesthetics, Vol. 5, 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/blft.v5.24426

Entering the Digital Literacy Era: Considerations for Digital Texts in Intervention

School-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) play a critical role in the development of students' literacy skills. As schools begin to include more digital texts, and eventually use digital texts exclusively, SLPs must consider the distinctive features of digital texts and how to strategically incorporate them within intervention sessions as well consultation and collaborative teaching sessions. In this article, I focus on providing in-depth background information for digital literacy in relation to a presentation I did for the American Speech-Language Hearing Association's (ASHA's) online Adolescent Language and Literacy conference in March of 2013.