Concept: Romibo is a pet-like social robot designed for therapy, education and fun!
The Romibo Robot Project is a collaboration between robotics researchers and people like YOU in the user community. Together we are co-developing a therapeutic robot for children with physical and developmental disabilities. Romibo’s educational and fun features support robot therapy research while providing tandem value to the general public. Building Romibo and contributing your ideas and experiences will help to improve the lives of others.
Tags: assistive technology, build, collaboration, conceptualize, design, design research, developer, director, entrepreneur, inventor, social robotics
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Last Updated: 2012/01/15 3:05pm
Concept: Advances in electronics have brought the promise of wearable computers to near reality. Such systems can offer a highly personal and mobile information and communication infrastructure. Previous research has investigated where wearable computers can be located on the human body – critical for successful development and acceptance. However, for a location to be truly useful, it needs to not only be accessible for interaction, socially acceptable, comfortable and sufficiently stable for electronics, but also effective at conveying information. In this paper, we describe a study that evaluated reaction time performance to visual stimuli at seven different body locations. Results indicate numerous, statistically significant differences in the reaction time performance characteristics of these locations. We believe our findings can be used to inform the design and placement of future wearable computing applications and systems.
Tags: build, collaboration, design research, developer, HCI, prototyping, research
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Last Updated: 2012/01/15 2:39pm
Concept: Personal-Public Displays - a class of devices that presents actionable personal information not only to the user, but also to the public, including friends, family, colleagues, neighbors and even strangers. Six properties are outlined that we believe are important for such information displays to embody. These build on two well-established methods for inducing behavior change: presenting pertinent information at the point-of-decision and leveraging social influence. To investigate the effectiveness of our concept, we have chosen a popular, but challenging target: motivating physical activity. This led to the development of Pediluma, a shoe accessory that tracks and visualizes the wearer’s physical activity by varying the intensity of a lighted housing. Results from a two-week, seventeen-participant user study indicated people wearing our device significantly increased their physical activity.
Tags: build, collaboration, design, design research, graduate research, HCI, research
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Last Updated: 2012/01/15 2:38pm
Concept: A traveling walk-through specimen exhibit that collapses for shipping.
Tags: collaboration, design, prototyping
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Last Updated: 2012/01/15 2:37pm
Concept: A coffeepot that uses affective display to covey task status and state.
Tags: build, collaboration, conceptualize, design, research, social robotics
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Last Updated: 2012/01/15 2:48pm
Concept: Note: this project has now developed into Romibo. Please visit www.Romibo.org to learn more!
MEmote is an affective mobile robot designed to discover potential benefits to children with mental and physical disabilities. (The project is a preliminary exploration executed over the course of two weeks and will continue to be developed and researched).
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Last Updated: 2012/01/15 3:24pm
