[Libri] Thursday talk: "Supporting active reading skills using adaptive hyperbooks"

[Tom Murray]

The School of Cognitive Science at invites you to the following talk:

Thursday November 21
3:30 p.m.
Adele Simmons Hall 111, Hampshire College

"Supporting active reading skills using adaptive hyperbooks"

Tom Murray
Senior Research Fellow and Adj. Assoc. Prof. of Instructional Technology

The book as a cultural tool has been in a transitional phase, and the
experiences of reading and authoring are transforming as the page becomes
the screen and as reading includes navigation.  This work deals with how
electronic books are blurring the distinctions between instructional,
reference, and narrative forms of the book.  To address some of these
issues we have developed and tested MetaLinks, an authoring tool and web
server for adaptive hyperbooks.   The system is designed to: 1) support
active reading and learning through both exploratory and focused 
behaviors;
2) support the construction and conceptualization of content through 
three
"epistemic" forms: narrative, network, and hierarchy, and 3) ameliorate a
number of usability issues: disorientation, cognitive overload, poor
narrative flow, and poor conceptual flow.  "Active reading" is a 
framework
for describing reading, searching, problem solving, and metacognitive
strategies that lead to more efficient and effective comprehension and/or
information finding in texts.  This talk will focus on how the skills of
active reading are both supported and problematized in hyperbooks.
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