Comparative Study of Production Criteria of Tactile Books From the Viewpoint of Production Specialists

Purpose: to compare the production criteria of tactile sensory books from the perspective of production experts methodology: the method of the present study was combined in terms of applied purpose and qualitative-quantitative in terms of data collection. in the qualitative part, in order to obtain the consensus of experts in the production and publication of tactile sensory books, the delphi method was used, and in the quantitative part, using a researcher-made questionnaire to the view of production and publishing experts regarding the production of tactile sensory books. analytical survey form was performed. in the quantitative part, two relative coefficients of content validity and content validity index were used. the content validity index of the researcher-made questionnaire was reported to be higher than 0.79. the reliability of the questionnaire was 0.863 based on cronbach’s alpha coefficient. also, for data analysis, descriptive statistics of mean and inferential statistics of friedman were used with the help of spss software. findings: the findings indicate that the four sub-components of tactile capabilities, audience recognition, texture diversity, and form and shape diversity from the technical criterion of producing a tactile book with an average rank of 16 with the highest rank and the two components of natural objects and circulation or numbers with an average rank of 4.81 have the lowest rank. regarding the production content criterion, the sub-components of attractiveness with the highest rank of 5.76 and the educational aspect of the content of these books from the point of view of production experts with 3.29 has the lowest position. in the criterion of presenting the production of a tactile book, the sub-component of effective and reciprocal communication with the audience has the highest rank with 5.55 and the role of librarian with 3.07 has the lowest rank. conclusion: by comparing the three main technical criteria, content and presentation of the production of tactile books, the most important criterion with an average rank of 2.67 content criteria was identified which has the most role for production from the perspective of production and publishing experts.