Navigation in Interactive Visual Narrative for Children's Appbooks

摘要

The paper analyses the role of navigation in children's appbooks interactive visual narrative. It is based on design categories for picture books analysis, proposed by Sophie Van der Linden, and on categories proposed by Janet Murray for interactive narrative analysis. Linden explains how the structure of printed book articulates narrative, and Murray describes the aesthetic effects of digital narrative. User's active participation in the story unfolding, as also hypertext nonlinearity, extends children's appbooks design dimensions, inserting navigation as a relevant feature for the user experience. The navigation design has been analyzed in four appbooks, namely: Jack and the Beanstalk, Monster's Socks, Petting Zoo and The Very Cranky Bear.