Development of digital textbook UI guideline: Focused on percepted user interest experience

Abstract

The government of South Korea announced that they will adopt the recent smart education strategy and the entire country's digital textbooks from elementary to high school, until 2015. That is why this study felt the needs of researches to develop the current digital textbook to be more systemic and structuralize, and provides guideline of digital textbook UI structure. In terms of constructing the digital textbook UI guideline, this study, unlike the other researches, focused the study on the fundamental problems than the experience of the users or the usability. On the matter of the research method, this study analyzed the interest related contents in the existing 132 research papers of digital textbook. Based on the analysis of the interest contents, the necessary interest elements of digital textbook UI is drawn after an interview survey was done on a group of experts consisting academia and hands-on workers, and Delphi survey methods are done three times. Also, to prove the credibility and validity of the drawn interest elements, proof survey was done on groups of 520 students of elementary and middle school students. As a conclusion, the necessary thirty two detail questions and seven interest elements are drawn. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.