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Usability Analysis of Children's iPad Electronic Picture books

Authors:
Pei-shiuan Tsai
Manlai You

Keywords: Usability; e-Picture Book; iPad Picture book

Abstract:
The main purpose of the research is to understand the current situation of design and development of iPad electronic picture books and analyze the usability. The researcher used the ranking lists search and browsing in the Apple Store for browsing various electronic picture books in great number. In the final stage, we screened out six different models to be used in iPad electronic picture books and conducted the analyses of usability. We selected by purposive sampling 15 adults (including eight teachers and seven mothers) and six six-year-old children (3 boys and 3 girls) who had experiences of using iPad. The subjects at first browsed six electronic picture books. Then 15 adults filled out the questionnaires, six children were interviewed and their operations were observed to understand their preferences and the uses of the products. The research found that the commonalities of the design of iPad electronic picture books a) dominated by page style; b) focused on linear development; c) most of interactive designs of story contents are clicking the objects on the screen; d) provided different languages and audio versions; e) most of them adopted the design of limited animation in which they used zoom-in and zoom-out and diversion techniques to show animations. The recommendations for future publishers and designers were: a) increase the interactions of story content; b) increase traditional Chinese subtitles and voice; c) integrate picture book platforms.

Pages: 269 to 273

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: February 24, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-250-9

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013