Project Leader: Patrizia Marti & Claudio Moderini
Project Assistants: Katrin Svabo Bech & Renzo Giusti
In collaboration with IROMEC | EU FP6 project | Interactive robotic social mediators as companions
Project: The Bubbies
Group members: David Boardman, Galan Pang, Roberto Pansolli
The Bubbies is a toy-family composed of four robotic balls, designed to support play activities between children with different levels of cognitive development and abilities.
Each smartifact contains specific features that aim to create a wide range of interactive situations. The robotic balls are characterized by individual identities and a set of behaviors that can be switched or expanded according to the particular context and the overall activity goals.
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Project: Dongmuron
Group members: Sang Yeun Lee, Jee Youn Moon, Sigrid Wiederhecker
Dongmuron is a soft modular robot, covered with a smart fabric that changes colour and patterns, for building life-like robots. It cans interpret his built shape and feeding received in order to assumes one living identity. The play activity can be controlled into a very basic puzzle mode with hints for building a defined animal with constrained behaviors or more complex mode for building an unknown living creature.
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Project: Le Parc
Group members: Alexandre Ceneviva, Soey Kang, Peter Knocke
A collection of 3 ‘pods’ is spread out on an interactive carpet. Depending on the position and activity of the pods on the carpet, the pod will behave in various ways. The carpet will be able to instruct games, show pod activity, respond to pod communication, show activity results, and will provide a framework for the play environment.
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Project: Camima
Group members: Sølvi Finnøy, Shadi Lahham & Keyur Sorathia
Camima is a deformable mat-like robotic entity that can take on various shapes and functions. It is designed for free form play as well as more structured activities.
It is very easy and accessible to children of a wide range of abilities and age groups. It focuses on different kinds of activities ranging from sensorial to motoric. It is modular, mobile, and very configurable.
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Project: Pixel
Group members: Yun Chen Chang, Sun Hye Cho & Ankit Shekhawat
Pixel is a modular robot that invites assembly play. It’s modelled to be played like building blocks where the play activity involves building structures by stacking one module on another. Building activity may involve structures evolving in shapes, colours and sounds.
