Can I read The SIT book: audio as affective imagery for interactive storybooks on EtoBox?

The SIT book: audio as affective imagery for interactive storybooks by Maribeth Back; Rich Gold; Dana Kirsch is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is The SIT book: audio as affective imagery for interactive storybooks about?

We describe a working prototype built as part of our continuing research focus on new document genres and the crossmodal affordances of interactive audio. Our experimental SIT (Sound-Image-Text)Book is a personal interactive reading experience that combines the look and feel of a real book --a beautiful cover, paper pages and printed images and text --with the rich, evocative quality of a movie soundtrack. The soundtrack is multi-track and includes music and sound effects. The SIT Book uses electric field sensors located in the book binding to sense the reader's casual book handling and fingering of the page; these sensors control the ambient audio. The particular point of the SIT Book is to explore the use of background sound to provide a sense of place, and to add affectto the experience of reading a book without interrupting the flow of the story. ## Keyworda Audio books, electronic books, reading, affect, sound design, interactive audio, peripheral audio, interactive books.

Author

Maribeth Back; Rich Gold; Dana Kirsch

Publisher

ACM Press

Published

1999

Language

EN