Redesign of a Data Collection in Digital Textbook Systems

This paper describes redesign of data collection in digital textbook systems. Previous studies in the digital textbook systems allow us to collect the data which pages learners were browsing in the digital textbooks. However, it is difficult to collect the data which positions of the pages learners were browsing in the digital textbooks unless using eye-tracking technologies. This study developed a digital textbook system called SEA (Smart E-textbook Application) to collect the data which positions of the pages the learners were browsing in the digital textbooks without eye-tracking technologies. The system automatically hides the texts in the digital textbook system with mask processing. An evaluation experiment was conducted to evaluate the user acceptance regarding our developed system.