Biography
Prof. Luximon Yan Tina
Prof. Luximon Yan Tina
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (China)
Title: Design of future electronic textbooks
Abstract: 
Electronic textbooks are becoming more and more popular in modern education. However, perspectives of interface components of students, the main users, have not been applied in the design of academic reading task. Students’ view of key components in future electronic textbooks should be identified. How will these components relate to gender, discipline, academic and experience level? This talk will present the key findings from an online study which conducted in a university. Results showed that text, highlighting, bookmarks, multimedia, translation capabilities, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias were the important components for future electronic textbooks. In addition, discipline also demonstrated the different requirements. These findings showed what students really need so that the future educational tools can be designed better and more standardized.
Biography: 
Dr. Yan Luximon (Tina) obtained her Ph.D. in Ergonomics from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Afterwards, she has worked on several research projects in universities and has acted as a consultant for companies. She joined the ergonomics design group in the School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a postdoctoral fellow and she is currently an Assistant Professor, BA (Product Design) Deputy Discipline Leader and Asian Ergonomics Design Lab Leader in the School. She is also the General Secretary and council member of the Hong Kong Ergonomics Society. She has been active in design research and teaching. She has published several book chapters, patents, international conference papers and peer‐reviewed journal papers.