TY - JOUR
T1 - Floffy : designing an outdoor robot for children
AU - Mubin, Omar
AU - Vink, Luke
AU - Oosterwijk, Pieter
AU - Al Mahmud, Abdullah
AU - Shahid, Suleman
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/528283
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-40498-6_46
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-40498-6_46
M3 - Article
SN - 0302-9743
VL - 8120
SP - 563
EP - 570
JO - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
JF - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
ER -