Storybird is a website where you can create your own online illustrated storybook. Aimed at children from 3 – 13 books can be created collaboratively and they positively encourage families, friends and school classes to work together. The artwork for your stories is provided by illustators and visual artists who are able to upload their [...]
Entries Tagged as 'augmented'
Storybird – collaborative storytelling
July 22nd, 2010 No Comments
Tags: augmented · book · drawing · inspiration · online
Battle of the Reading Formats
July 13th, 2010 No Comments
An iPad disguised to fit in on a book shelf. * See the bottom of this post for more. Fitting in very nicely with our discussions on Augmented Reading, Jakob Nielsen, the legend of usability studies, has conducted a test on the relative reading experience of reading a short story (Ernest Hemingway, in case you’re [...]
Tags: augmented · electronic · evaluation
Carlton say Books Come Alive
July 12th, 2010 2 Comments
New Scientist reports that UK publisher Carlton have launched two titles in their Augmented Reality series. The books – Fairyland Magic and Dinosaurs Alive – include a CD with software to install on your PC. Once this is done you point your webcam at the pages of the book and the webcam image of the [...]
Tags: augmented · book · electronic
HITLabNZ: Magic Book
June 18th, 2010 2 Comments
Writing about Rita King’s Second Life and augmented reality Story Cubes reminded me of the Magic Book project I came across a while ago. Developed by researchers at the HITLabNZ and led by Mark Billinghurst, Magic Book enables readers to augment their reading experience with 3-D images. Viewing the pages of the Magic Book through [...]
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Rita J. King: StoryCubes in a Virtual World
June 15th, 2010 No Comments
Story Cubes in Second Life As I explore Story Cubes I thought I would investigate how artists have used these objects in more successful ways than my fabulously unsuccessful pinhole camera experiments. Rita J. King of Dancing Ink Productions was commissioned by Giles to contribute to Transformations on diffusion.org.uk. Transformations asks writers, artists, performers, thinkers [...]
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