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Tina Kothe, Ida Buchwald, Sarah Tausch, Anja Mohr, Heinrich Hussmann
Art Education in the Digital World. A picture book as app
Workshop Interactive e-Books for Children: Art Education in the Digital World. A picture book as app. In conjunction with the 2014 Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2014), Aarhus, Denmark, June 17-20, 2014

In Art Education the possibilities oered by the digital world are widely neglected. Taking up this negligence, the thesis concerns an aesthetic media almost every child, teacher and parent is familiar with since infancy: the picture book. We combined the picture book with the interactive elements of a game and transferred it into the realm of the digital world. The goal was to create a unique experience for children that neither a game nor a printed picture book could accomplish by itself. It combines elements of reading, hearing, pictures, interaction, game and art. The digital picture book, especially the book-game, is more than an aesthetic object. My hypothesis is that the digital picture book is an aesthetic experience in itself, consisting of ve elements: ludological, narratological, visual, acoustic and social elements. To evaluate the theoretical hypothesis whether such an interactive picture book is able to create new creative- aesthetic experiences, we conducted a user study with 3rd grade primary school children aged 8-10.