Research On Interaction Features Of Children Ebook Based On Mobile Devices

The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates said:the e-book will change the world of reading. E-book is not a new medium of reading. Back in the era of the rise of the internet, paper books had began quietly its digitization journey. Digitization of the reading object has been changed to the digitization of the way of reading; simple electronic version derived directly from traditional printed books has been firstly changed to electronic reading materials of which the production and publishing are only in digitized form, and then to the multimedia materials which contains the integration of voice, video, animation, real-time module, interactive modules and other elements. Advances in technology led to the development of e-books.Recent years, along with the improvement and widely implementation of internet technology and mobile communications technology, it comes into a new era that variety of information is stored and transported digitally. People is no longer satisfied by either sitting in front of desktop computer to get information or using traditional mobile digital devices that can only take pictures, make phone calls or send text messages. Instead, they need access to information they need at anytime and in anywhere. Driven by this demand, more advanced and more convenient mobile devices have been invented. Lead by the mobile technology, the speed of digitization process becomes faster and faster, of which in particular, the impact to the publishing industry is most evident. The output value of China’s digital publishing industry developed by leaps and bounds within just a few years. E-reader software is becoming more and more popular, while people’s reading habits and the environment has changed significantly.Similarly, electronic book for children, which has been created since the beginning of the twenty-first century, has experienced the evolution in conjunction with other electronic electronic publications as well. Nowadays, electronic book for children does not exist only on the traditional equipment such as a PC, but also appear more frequently on convenient mobile devices. Electronic book for children based on mobile devices represents a new type of e-book installed on smart phones, tablet PCs and other mobile devices, with text, voice, images, animation, sound, music, and other multi-factor as the carrier, and with interactive features. The popularity of smart phones and tablet PCs allow more children to read e-books through these mobile devices, and also lead more parents and other related people in the industry to focus on the impact of these new e-book to children’s development.Taking the situation above as the background, this essay intends to elaborate the emergence and development of mobile devices based e-book for children, analyze the features of these e-books and the needs and characteristics of the audience. Through research and analysis, taking into account children’s visual auditory development of organ function and interactive children’s e-book with text, voice, images, animation, sound, music, multimedia, multi-touch interactive effects, this essay focuses on4-6year-old children as target group of study. It also investigates the characteristics and problems of today’s e-book for children, and studies the forms and characteristics of the interaction of the children’s e-book based on mobile devices, and then summarizes the characteristics and direction of the new development of the e-book. This article is based on the theory of child psychology, design arts, design psychology, new media design, interactive design, and mobile terminal technology. It contains study of real cases based on methodology that combines the research, analysis and practice. In this article, the research on children’s e-book based on mobile devices does not include the study on such electronic reading devices, while narrowly refers to the perceived digital content through electronic reader.