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TOFU: a socially expressive robot character for child interaction

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Ryan Wistort,

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IDC '09: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Pages 292 - 293

https://doi.org/10.1145/1551788.1551862

Published: 03 June 2009 Publication History

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The TOFU project introduces a robotic platform for enabling new opportunities in robot based learning with emphasis on storytelling and artistic expression. This project introduces a socially expressive robot character designed to mimic the expressive abilities of animated characters. This demonstration proposal describes the expressive abilities and operator interface to the TOFU project. In this demonstration session, participants will have the opportunity to physically interact with the TOFU project and puppeteer the behavior of the robotic character through a simple joystick interface.

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DOI:10.1145/1551788

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