5th Quarterly Progress Report: August to October 2001
Between 01 August and 31 October 2001:
- The following experiments were completed:
- a study of ebook hardware devices;
- a comparison of electronic encyclopaedias;
- an evaluation of Cliff McKnight's Hypertext in Context;
- The following experiments are ongoing:
(see evaluations for more details);
- an evaluation of three textbooks in psychology;
- a comparison of a title in geography across three commercially available formats;
Two articles were published:
- Evolution of portable electronic books in Ariadne 29, September 2001;
- "Electronic books as learning tools" in ASSIGnation 19 (1), October 2001;
- A paper on accessibility issues ("Electronic books for everyone: designing for accessibility") was accepted for the December issue of Vine;
- Ruth presented a paper ("Evaluating electronic textbooks: a methodology") at ECDL 2001 in Germany in September. Available in HTML and as a PowerPoint presentation;
- The ECDL workshop, "Electronic books: old wine in new bottles?", was cancelled;
- Ruth's paper, "The 'look and feel' of an ebook: considerations in interface design", was accepted for the SAC 2002 electronic books special track, to be held in Madrid in March;
- The second Steering Committee meeting took place on 17 October 2001 (see minutes).
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