Livro interativo baseado em lenda brasileira

Abstract

This article presents the development of an interactive book, that tells a brazilian legend in an unusual and interactive form. In an interactive book it's possible to the reader interact with the history through various mechanic elements in paper, assembled inside of the book, making this reading attractive, funny and uncompromising. The development of these samples is geared specially for children. After some qualitative searches, using interviews, as a tool to collect data, it was possible to trace the profile of target public, as well as to define how the legend would be told in this copy. From these data, the legend of Iguaçu Falls was chosen to develop the project. This legend comes from an indigenous tribe called Kaingang,original from south region of Brazil, and reports that the love of a couple of indigenous from this tribe angered god M'Boi. According to the indigenous legend this god governs the whole world and the result of his anger was something so great that can be seen until nowadays, the Iguacu Falls. Therefore, study the concepts of popular culture, indigenous culture, children’s book, interactive book and paper engineering were the base for the development of this book. To develop the interactions, segment of editorial area, some techniques of paper engineering, were used. Paper engineering it’s a field in development since thirteenth century and consists in to develop elements such as origamis, folding and sculptures in paper that can be moved. These mechanical elements can be used in books, giving to a reader the possibility of to interact with the paper. Lastly, this work, presents too, the process of develop an interactive book, supported by paper engineering, showing the stages of creation, from choice of characters and illustrations and appropriate interactions studies for each page, to the book binding.