...Jia-Rui Sun; Ko-Chiu Wu Purpose This study aims to explore the eye movement behavior of preadolescent children accessing and diagnosing information. Design/methodology/approach The researchers tracked the eye movements of 30 children with an eye-tracking apparatus. Using the kit of factor...

...Lily Sin Nga Cheung; Dickson K.W. Chiu; Kevin K.W. Ho Purpose This pilot study aims to investigate how parents use electronic resources to encourage children’s reading and learning interests through the 5E instructional model. Moreover, this study explores the public’s current electronic reading...

...Po-Yao Chao; Chia-Ching Lin Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how young children interact with a visualized search interface to search for storybooks by assembling the provided visual searching items and to explore the difference in visual search behaviours and strategies...

... benefit in enhancing features of e-books and designing reading programmes to help build more positive attitude towards reading among children. Originality/value – Little research has been reported in the literature on investigation of e-books towards reading attitude particularly using empirical...

...Madely du Preez Modern children want to interact with information, rather than merely receiving it. The internet and modern technology has also become their main, if not their only source of information and entertainment. Librarians are now confronted with the question as to where the library...

...Sally Maynard; Cliff McKnight This article describes a survey investigating the opinions of children’s librarians on the subject of electronic books. A questionnaire was sent by post to those responsible for public library services for children at each of the 208 local government authorities...

...Audrey Anthoney; Josephine M. Royle; Ian M. Johnson Reports the results of the first stage of research (in progress, 1997‐2000), which aims to develop an understanding of the challenges facing publishers who have entered the children’s multimedia market in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s...