Improving the Authoring of Web-based Interactive E-books with FableJS

• Alfredo Tito Silva UFMA
• Welton Marinho de Souza UFMA
• Daniel de Sousa Moraes UFMA
• Roberto Gerson Azevedo Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
• Carlos de Salles Soares Neto UFMA

Resumo

Electronic books (e-books) first appeared aiming to convert physical books to the digital format. Nevertheless, as technologies advanced, new features were being added to them, creating then, the interactive multimedia e-books. Developing these types of interactive content often requires technical knowledge. However, for authors without this experience, there are few solutions with a high level abstraction paradigm. This article describes FableJS, a library for authoring web applications with nonlinear interactive e-books. Also, a controlled experiment with volunteers using the proposed tool is shown. The study points out that 76.92\% of the participants evaluated the library's expressiveness as satisfactory.

Palavras-chave: Electronic books, FableJS, abstraction paradigm

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