TY - GEN
T1 - Sprock-it
T2 - 6th international Conference on Interaction Design And Children, IDC 2007
AU - Burleson, Winslow
AU - Jensen, Camilla Nørgaard
AU - Raaschou, Trine
AU - Frohold, Stefan
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - "Sprock-it" is a hand-sized robotic character that encourages full-body interaction and engaging mental play. Through social and physical interactions with the system and with each other, children influence the character's mobile and responsive autonomous driving behavior. Enabling constructionist activities and participatory adaptive design the system employs RFID tags and readers, wireless Bluetooth modules, Atmega microprocessors within Arduino's development environment, along with a wearable interface and a variety of physiological/activity sensors. Sprock-it has been developed in collaboration with LEGO and the MIT Media Lab as a concept that represents a new strategy for LEGO by updating the original LEGO mantra of "the little constructor" to "the little interactor". This paper presents the system development of Sprock-it.
AB - "Sprock-it" is a hand-sized robotic character that encourages full-body interaction and engaging mental play. Through social and physical interactions with the system and with each other, children influence the character's mobile and responsive autonomous driving behavior. Enabling constructionist activities and participatory adaptive design the system employs RFID tags and readers, wireless Bluetooth modules, Atmega microprocessors within Arduino's development environment, along with a wearable interface and a variety of physiological/activity sensors. Sprock-it has been developed in collaboration with LEGO and the MIT Media Lab as a concept that represents a new strategy for LEGO by updating the original LEGO mantra of "the little constructor" to "the little interactor". This paper presents the system development of Sprock-it.
KW - Full body interaction
KW - Interactive toy
KW - Tangible interfaces
KW - User-centered design
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U2 - 10.1145/1297277.1297302
DO - 10.1145/1297277.1297302
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:41149123261
SN - 9781595937476
T3 - Proceedings of the 6th international Conference on Interaction Design And Children, IDC 2007
SP - 125
EP - 128
BT - Proceedings of the 6th international Conference on Interaction Design And Children, IDC 2007
Y2 - 6 June 2007 through 6 August 2007
ER -