Project Number
- 231
Title
- Curlybot
Description
- Interactive gesture-driven robotic toy that captures and replays human inputs.
Contact
- Phil Frei
Affiliation
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Address
- MIT Media Laboratory
- 20 Ames Street, E15-468C
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
- 20 Ames Street, E15-468C
- frei@media.mit.edu
WWW
Year
- 1999
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "Recent trends of digital technology in toys have lead to greater possibilities for manipulation and interaction. Curlybot is a two-wheeled toy with embedded electronics that can record and play back motion. It remembers its change in position and replays its movements with all the intricacies of the original gesture. Every pause, and even the shaking in the user's hand, is recorded."
- "In this presentation, the interaction experience is augmented by projecting trails behind each toy to give participants a chance to compose a movement or a dance and create graphical patterns out of simple gestures."
Sight
- Curlybot, projected trails
Sound
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Secondary
- 309 - entertainment
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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