A Workshop of a Digital Kamishibai System for Children and Analysis of Children’s Works

The authors have developed a digital kamishibai system, for authoring and performing kamishibai is said to have good educational effects on children. The system is implemented so that even children can operate it easily. The characteristics of the system are authoring with drag-and-drop operation and performance with ad-lib animation. Through the experiment, the authors made sure that children over six years old could handle the system. In this paper, the authors carried out a workshop in which children authored and performed digital kamishibai. Forty-eight groups participated. From the questionnaire, both children and their parents were mostly favorable to the system. The effects mentioned above were observed. Through the workshop, various kamishibai works were made. The authors showed these works to a staff of a children’s hall (an expert of kamishibai) and had review them. He pointed out children’s comprehension of stories, characteristics and style of representation, and structures and originality of the works. One of the future works is a detailed analysis of the works.