Realizing a New Environment for Browsing/Reading Many and Various Picture Books by Setting a Digital Table in a Children's Room

我们的目标是建立一个新的浏览/阅读环境，通过在公共图书馆或幼儿园的儿童房间安装BrowsReader，稳步增强儿童与家人和/或朋友一起浏览和阅读图画书的能力。孩子们聚集在BrowsReader周围，可以浏览各种各样的图画书，然后通过翻页来选择和阅读一本书。在将每本印刷的、数字化的或网络图画书复制为代理图画书之后，我们首先引入两个基本概念：抽象书架，它以线性排列的形式呈现代理图画书的封面图像，其中一些图像捆绑在不同的位置；以及统一视图，它以印刷图画书的页面的形式呈现任何代理图画书的每一页。我们在大分县图书馆、别府大学附属幼儿园等的儿童室实现了多种新的浏览/阅读环境，阐明了BrowsReader在儿童一起浏览/阅读活动中的作用。

We aim to build a new browsing/reading environment, in which children's browsing and reading of picture books together with families and/or friends is steadily enhanced, by installing the BrowsReader in the children's room of a public library or a kindergarten. The children, by gathering around the BrowsReader, can browse many and various picture books and then choose and read a book by flipping pages on it. After reproducing each printed, digitized or web picture book as a surrogate picture book, we first introduce two basic notions ; an abstracted bookshelf, which presents the front-cover images of the surrogate picture books in the form where all are linearly arranged, with some of the images bundled in places, and a unified view, which presents each page of any surrogate picture book in a form that seems like a printed picture book's page. We realized multiple new browsing/reading environments in the children's rooms of Oita Prefectural library, Beppu University attached kindergarten, etc., and clarified the effects of the BrowsReader in the children's activity in browsing/reading together.