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Designing Children's Interactive Pop-up Books| Creating enhanced experiences through the incorporation of animation principles and interactive design

<p> This thesis, <i>Designing Children&rsquo;s Interactive Pop-up Books: Creating enhanced experiences through the incorporation of animation principles and interactive design,</i> created by Michael Begay, explores how interactive design and computer graphics can be used to create enhanced user experiences in children&rsquo;s book design. Key factors taken into consideration during the creation of this thesis include children&rsquo;s book design, typography, storytelling, animation principles, and interactive design principles. </p><p> In order to explore the effect computer graphic design has on creating an enhanced user experience in pop-up book design, this project starts with research on writing a compelling, age appropriate story for children between the ages of three and six. After the story is complete, the next step of this project is the creation of a traditional printed pop-up book. This printed pop-up book is then used to inform design decisions around the creation of the interactive pop-up book, such as the types of interactions to use (e.g., pull tabs, drag and drops, and simple clicks) as well as how the pages animate. The interactive pop-up book uses full-screen display and sound to help further create an immersive environment and enhanced reading experience. </p><p> After finishing the creation of the traditional printed pop-up book and the interactive pop-up book, both books are tested with a group of participants (consisting of parents, caretakers, older siblings, and teachers) who interact with children between the ages of three and six. The tests contain questions related to the story&rsquo;s comprehensiveness, the overall aesthetic of the illustration style, ease of use, and format preference&mdash;printed versus digital. While the findings from these tests suggest that there is a still a wonderment for watching folder paper come to life in three-dimensional forms, the interactive pop-up book has more potential in creating an enhanced reading experience.</p>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:PROQUEST/oai:pqdtoai.proquest.com:1596572
Date16 September 2015
CreatorsBegay, Michael
PublisherRochester Institute of Technology
Source SetsProQuest.com
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typethesis

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