An authoring tool for developing highly interactive digital books: the IntBooks platform

Abstract

We present a document platform, denominated "IntBooks", that seamlessly aggregates web technologies into digital books, giving the reader an interactive, intelligent and rich environment, and authors a "simple" and collaborative way to build and share them. It addresses some of the common technical issues as: how should different media (e.g. mathematics formulae) be delivered and displayed in a large set of devices; how users interaction should be made and statistics collected; and how authors may reuse and mesh up content from different web repositories. A particular IntBook planned for the fifth and sixth grades of Basic Portuguese School is also discussed, emphasizing its specificities and additional features.