Building Children and Adolescents’ Electronic Book Reading System: A Conceptual Model

Purpose:regarding the design of an applicable electronic book reading system for children and adolescents, this study’s struggle is to prepare a conceptual model in this case. method:so we used quantitative approach and delphi method in order to analyze data. in this regard, criterion based sampling is used to identify the research population. therefore, 15 experts were identified which had criteria such as having subjective publications, teaching experience, and so on. we factually supposed that these experts could present much more information that we expected to collect. moreover, 8 electronic book systems were selected to be reviewed, because of their many active audiences, and their international and also standard presence. in fact we firstly identified practical criteria in designing electronic books by extracting them from related resources and also checking active systems. the data helped us to prepare the checklist draft and it was completed after passing validity control step with participation of three experts. then the checklist was presented to experts in delphi panel. finally, consensus on the components was reached after three rounds of delphi panel. findings the findings showed that in designing electronic books for children and adolescents, there are five original components. the components include display screen features with 12 criteria, screen organization with 13 criteria, interaction and feedback with 8 criteria, search and retrieval features with 10 criteria, and help and guidance features with 10 criteria. conclusion:the study, display screen features with score of 3, 706 and interaction and feedback with score of 3, 700 were selected as the most important components in designing electronic book systems by delphi experts. interface children and adolescents library.