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Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Laying Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age

In this paper, we present the first year work of the INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) research group, a large international, interdisciplinary research team studying reading and texts, both digital and printed. The INKE team is comprised of researchers and stakeholders at the forefronts of fields relating to textual studies, user experience, interface design, and information management. We aim to contribute to the development of new digital information and knowledge environments that build on past textual practices. We discuss our research questions, methods, aims and research objectives, the rationale behind our work and its expected significance -specifically as it pertains to our first year goals of laying a research foundation for this endeavour. We thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for funding a research cluster grant, which has made our research network possible, and the generous co-sponsorship of our institutions and research partners.

HCI-Book? Perspectives on E-Book Research, 2006-2008 (Foundational to Implementing New Knowledge Environments)

In this paper, we present the conceptual and theoretical foundations for work undertaken by the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) research group, a large international, interdisciplinary research team studying reading and texts, both digital and printed. The INKE team is comprised of researchers and stakeholders at the forefronts of fields relating to textual studies, user experience, interface design, and information management. We aim to contribute to the development of new digital information and knowledge environments that build on past textual practices. In this piece, we discuss our research questions, methods, aims and research objectives, the rationale behind our work and its expected significance.

Codex Redux: books and new knowledge environments

… of the 2008 ACM workshop on …, 2008

1.In this paper, we present the work of the INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) research group, a large international, interdisciplinary research team studying reading and texts, both digital and printed. The INKE team is comprised of researchers and stakeholders at the forefronts of fields relating to textual studies, user experience, interface design, and information management. We aim to contribute to the development of new digital information and knowledge environments that build on past textual practices. We discuss our research questions, methods, aims and research objectives, the rationale behind our work and its expected significance.

Introduction: Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: Text and Beyond

Scholarly and Research Communication

The INKE Research Group comprises over 35 researchers (and their research assistants and postdoctoral fellows) at more than 20 universities in Canada, England, the United States, and Ireland, and across 20 partners in the public and private sectors. INKE is a large-scale, long-term, interdisciplinary project to study the future of books and reading, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada as well as contributions from participating universities and partners, and bringing together activities associated with book history and textual scholarship; user experience studies; interface design; and prototyping of digital reading environments.

Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Year One Research Foundations

Scholarly and Research Communication, 2012

In this 2009 article, we present details of the first year work of the INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) research group, a large international, interdisciplinary research team studying reading and texts, both digital and printed. The INKE team is comprised of researchers and stakeholders at the forefronts of fields relating to textual studies, user experience, interface design, and information management. We aim to contribute to the development of new digital information and knowledge environments that build on past textual practices. We discuss our research questions, methods, aims and research objectives, the rationale behind our work and its expected significance—specifically as it pertains to our first year goals of laying a research foundation for this endeavour.

Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Year 1 Research Foundations

New Knowledge …, 2009

In this paper, we present details of the first year work of the INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) research group, a large international, interdisciplinary research team studying reading and texts, both digital and printed. The INKE team is comprised of researchers and stakeholders at the forefronts of fields relating to textual studies, user experience, interface design, and information management. We aim to contribute to the development of new digital information and knowledge environments that build on past textual practices. We discuss our research questions, methods, aims and research objectives, the rationale behind our work and its expected significancespecifically as it pertains to our first year goals of laying a research foundation for this endeavour.

Imagining the Architectures of the Book: Textual Scholarship and the Digital Book Arts

Textual Cultures, 2012

Why should designers of digital reading environments study the history of the book? What can the continuities and discontinuities-the successes and failures-of new developments in the book's long history teach us about its possible futures? Questions such as these often go unasked in commercial e-book design and other domains that emphasize technical innovation as their only criterion for evaluating the past. However, new reading environments challenge us to understand the role of material forms in meaning-making, and to situate e-books and digital reading devices within the changing history of books and reading. This article explores that rationale as embodied by the Architectures of the Book (ArchBook) project, an online, open-access, and peer-reviewed collection of richly illustrated essays about specific design features in the history of the book. 1. Research for this essay was supported by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. For their comments on early versions of this work, we are grateful to audiences at Laurentian University, the Material Cultures conference in Edinburgh (2010), and the Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick (2011). Information on the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project's Textual Studies team can be found at archbook.ischool.utoronto.ca/archbook /publications.php.

Focus Section: Transforming Books and the Reading Experience through Interactive Technologies, Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal - IxD&A, N.32, 2017

Preface by Mohammad Obaid, Ilgim Veryeri Alaca, Pawel W. Wozniak, Lars Lischke, Mark Billinghurst pp. 71 - 73 • Adam Girard, Benjamin R. Cowan, Kalpana Shankar, David Coyle Using Emotional Attachment as a Lens to Improve User’s E-reading Experience, pp. 74 - 83 • Pedro Ribeiro, Cristina Sylla, Ido Iurgel, Wolfgang Müller, Christian Ressel STREEN – Designing Smart Environments for Story Reading with Children, pp. 84 - 103 • Monica Bordegoni, Marina Carulli, Yuan Shi, Daniele Ruscio Investigating the effects of odours integration in reading and learning experiences, pp. 104 - 125 • Diane H. Sonnenwald, Jason McElligott Investigating Human-Rare Historic Book Interaction among Young Adults, pp. 126 - 149