The System Supporting Picture Book Creation for Children

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25871044
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Learning support system; Kansei informatics
• Research Institution: Niihama National College of Technology
• Principal Investigator: KATO Shigeru 新居浜工業高等専門学校, 電気情報工学科, 講師 (00413857)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 物語 / 創作支援 / 対話

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to the develop the system which helps children to make story book easily with enjoyment. In this system pictures are used as material for story creation. In the fundamental system, firstly the child makes the pictures. Secondly, the system shows the story sentences imagined from the pictures to the child. The child makes the story by choosing the sentences.

In this framework we explored more effective method. At first we constructed the interface with usability for making pictures. Secondly, we carried out an experiment for story creation by children using the interface. In the experiment, the children made pictures freely and spoke the story content. The adults transcribed the spoken content into text using keyboad. The combination of pictures and the text are arranged and printed. We gave the printed one to the child and asked to answer questionnaire. It is found that the intelligent software keyboard is important in order to make the story more enthusiastically.

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