Stuffed Toy as an Appealing Tangible Interface for Children

Ping Tat Sin, Hiu Fung Ng, Hong Va Leong

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Abstract

In recent years, there is a growing phenomenon
with children playing mobile devices. Overplaying mobile
devices, however, may not lead to a balanced childhood. Lack
of physical touch-and-feel stimulus is detrimental to children.
Can touch-and-feel stuffed toys be made more appealing to
children for a wider variety on their playtime diet? We
explore a stuffed toy controller which integrates elements from
both digital and make-believe games in an attempt to enrich
children interaction experience. A user study was conducted
to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed controller while
another children-oriented user study shows that make-believe
augmented reality games played by the toy controller can
enhance children’s interest in stuffed toys.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages75-78
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)978-1-6654-3734-9
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2021

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