Interactive Animation Authoring Platform Based on State-Transition Diagrams that Runs on Android Devices

An interactive animation is a presentation of moving pictures that behave dynamically according to the input from users. It can be composed of animation characters modeled as finite-state machines. Based on the fact that the behavior of a finite-state machine can be defined by a state-transition diagram, an interactive animation authoring tool called Islay has been developed. Islay allows users to create interactive animation simply by drawing state-transition diagrams on a GUI-based editor. Up to now Islay mainly runs on the PCs. But we cannot use it on the portable devices that have become popular recently. In this research, a new version of Islay that runs on Android devices is developed with its user interface adapted to the touch screen interface.