| With the development of modern technology and new media,children’s reading habits have been changed,and aesthetic needs have also been improved.How to meet the reading needs of children,improve the interest and readability of children’s picture books,and let children take the initiative to acquire knowledge and happiness in reading is an urgent problem.Compared with picture books for adults,the focus of children’s picture books is on how to use knowledge of child psychology,starting from the cognitive and behavioral characteristics of children,to make readers empathize with the content of the picture book.The power of empathy lies in deepening the audience’s understanding of the content of literary works,making the conveyed information give the audience a real experience,stimulating the audience’s interest in reading,and subtly integrating the content presented in literary works with real life to achieve the purpose of educating and entertaining.Therefore,based on the support of social needs and technological development,children’s digital interactive picture books based on empathy theory have certain application value,and the research in this article is feasible and necessary.This paper takes preschool children aged 3-6 as the research object,uses empathy theory as the theoretical basis,explores the development trend of children’s picture books and provides new ideas for the form framework of children’s digital interactive picture books.It seeks innovation points in interactive design for children’s picture book creation,and deepens children’s empathy understanding of picture books from the perspective of child psychology and cognitive characteristics.The paper realizes the research and practice of children’s digital interactive picture books through four chapters.Firstly,detailed data collection and analysis were conducted on children’s picture books and empathy theory.The practical significance and development trend of children’s digital interactive picture books were studied.The problems and shortcomings of existing children’s digital interactive picture books were summarized.Secondly,starting from empathy theory,the application of empathy theory in children’s digital interactive picture books was analyzed.The significance and design principles of children’s digital interactive picture books based on empathy theory were summarized.Thirdly,based on the basic theory and case study,the design methods of visual,auditory and tactile elements of picture books were summarized and generalized.So as to guide the next step of creative practice under the design framework.Finally,based on the analysis of target user characteristics,picture books were created and further improved systematically according to audience feedback.It brings target users an interactive picture book that combines entertainment,education,intellectual development and visual aesthetics,and provides certain reference value for related research and creation. |