A component-based visual scenario construction language for electronic book

Abstract

Multimedia electronic books play an important role now as the demand for creative education is becoming a major trend in elementary schools. Although the textual scripting languages can describe powerful scenarios, users must be skilled with programming ability in order to create multimedia electronic books. For common users such as elementary school teachers, it may not be an easy job for them to produce multimedia electronic books. Thus, innovative ways to create multimedia electronic books must be requested. We propose a visual scenario construction language for electronic books. Using the proposed visual construction approach, one can create animated pictures or motion pictures and use it to describe a presentation scenario instead of writing a large mass of textual programs. Based on the proposed approach, an interactive multimedia electronic book can be produced relatively easy compared with the use of traditional approaches.