A Digital Picture Story System with Touch Operation — Development and Evaluation via Workshop

Kamishibai is a kind of popular storytelling style in Japan. It is pointed out that children themselves author and perform kamishibai is of educational significance. However, there are few attempts due to difficulty of authoring kamishibai by themselves without any helps. We developed a digital kami-shibai system and carried out a workshop for the evaluation. In this workshop, children were easily able to author and perform digital kamishibai by themselves, and various works were created. Furthermore, communications among participants were promoted through the workshop. Evaluation results showed that proposed system achieved the educational effects of kami-shibai for children in an easier way with aid of computers.