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Location-triggered mobile access to a digital library of audio books using Tipple

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This paper explores the role of audio as a means to access books while being at locations referred to within the books, through a mobile app, called Tipple. The books are sourced from a digital library—either self-contained on the mobile phone, or else over the network—and can either be accompanied by pre-recorded audio or synthesized using text-to-speech. The paper details the functional requirements, design and implementation of Tipple. The developed concept was explored and evaluated through three field studies.

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  1. The locations of Lake District poems are mapped, e.g., at http://www.poetryatlas.com/search/lake+district.html.

  2. See, for example, maps at http://www.newzealand.com/int/feature/middle-earth/.

  3. All the novels by Austen are in the public domain and freely available, for example, from Project Gutenberg.

  4. Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” in Project Gutenberg online at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/105/105-h/105-h.htm.

  5. Map by Dublin Tourism http://www.visitdublin.com.

  6. http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/whatson/events/livingroom/default.asp 2005 data obtained via Internet Archive.

  7. Online at http://www.poetryatlas.com/search/lake+district.html.

  8. Public art by pedestrian publishing, online at http://www.pavementpoetry.com.

  9. Map and text from http://www.pemberley.com/images/landt/maps/na/PumpRoom.html#.

  10. Online at http://www.placingliterature.com.

  11. Audio books of Jane Austen, for example, are also available from Project Gutenberg.

  12. Hamilton Gardens are the authors’ local public Gardens, see www.hamiltongardens.co.nz.

  13. http://the-lost-symbol-guided-tour.blogspot.com/.

  14. http://www.panoramas.dk/da-vinci-code/index.html.

  15. http://www.taleofgenji.org/.

  16. http://www.storiesnow.com/londonholmes.

  17. http://www.lonelyplanet.com/competitions/eatpraylove/.

  18. http://blog.anytrip.com/harry-potter-london-sights/.

  19. Information available at http://ajw.asahi.com/article/cool_japan/fun_spots/AJ2011092812008.

  20. www.southernliterarytrail.org.

  21. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.carriehall.android.BookFriend&hl=en.

  22. www.codexmap.com.

  23. www.atlasoffiction.com.

  24. http://books.google.com.

  25. http://www.googlelittrips.com.

  26. http://code.google.com/p/mapsforge/.

  27. www.phonegap.com.

  28. http://cordova.apache.org.

  29. http://leafletjs.com.

  30. www.openstreetmap.com.

  31. The participants were part of a course on HCI and user studies and had been encouraged to be questioning and critical. No participant had studied Digital Libraries as part of their formal training and Digital Libraries were not specifically mentioned to any participants.

  32. www.mixare.org.

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We thank the participants of our user studies and the people who provided content for our user studies: the event managers for the Stations event as well as the volunteers from the Friends of the Hamilton Gardens. We also would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions.

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This manuscript is an extension of the authors’ earlier work presented at the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2013) [23].

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Hinze, A., Bainbridge, D. Location-triggered mobile access to a digital library of audio books using Tipple . Int J Digit Libr 17, 339–365 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-015-0165-z

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