Figuring Out If Children Actually Read Digital Picture Books and Which Ones Should Be Collected

摘要

The adoption of digital picture books enriches the collection in the children's room of a library or kindergarten. The unprincipled adoption, however, exerts a significant influence on the execution of a budget. We propose a method of figuring out if the children in a children's room actually read the digital picture books and which digital picture books should be collected by graphing the curves of page flipping. The effect of the proposed method has been clarified by an experiment in the children's room of a kindergarten. One finding is that a picture book can be ascertained to have been read when more than half of its pages have been flipped at the child's pace. Another finding is that the collection of the picture books to be read can include the ones with various page flipping patterns, irrespective of whether they are fun or not.