Floffy : designing an outdoor robot for children

Omar Mubin, Luke Vink, Pieter Oosterwijk, Abdullah Al Mahmud, Suleman Shahid

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    Abstract

    In our research we utilized the domain of entertainment robotics to educate children on the principles of environmental awareness by playful means outdoors. Our research revolved around the iterative design of Floffy: the environmental robot, which was essentially a playful toy robot that would respond positively to interaction that was beneficial for the environment and the child’s own well being and negatively to interaction or behaviour that was detrimental to the surroundings. We conducted an explorative, informal evaluation of Floffy with two small groups of children and they rated their experience with it positively. Our results show that there is potential in utilizing entertainment robots to educate children on serious and critical issues such as saving our environment and being sustainable.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)563-570
    Number of pages8
    JournalLecture Notes in Computer Science
    Volume8120
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

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