Supporting Physical Agents in an Interactive e-book

In recent years, with the advances in information technology and the popularization of computers, obtaining life-around information becomes faster and more convenient. With the emergence of e-books, the reading media is no longer confined to the traditional paper book. People is used to be interactive with lots of interactive media, however most of off-the-shelf e-books offer only data of ordinary flat media, like visual and voice data, and no real touch-interactions there. This study is aimed to use physical agents as interactive media into traditional e-books. Through the performance of the robot body language, users can therefore have profound experience on book context.