Storytelling is a very critical activity for children, either as a listener or a teller, in terms of development of narrative skills and realization of the world. Generally, by 3 years old, children are gradually skilled at labeling items and further realizing relations among them. These skills are rudiments for advanced storytelling activity later. Proper assistance and guidance including story books and caregivers are required for the precedent achievements.
Adaptive Mouse (AM) consists of a smart material which is deformable and is capable of recognizing the deformation. The deformation provides perfect and comfortable ergonomic shape for users’ diverse hand gestures. The smart material itself could also dynamically activate…
Adaptive Camera is discovering the idea that whether it is possible to compensate the elimination of formal implications for flexible operation by providing functional adaptability. In detail, I am going to create a digital camera which has no elements of implications at all…
The important role of design in HCI is providing design thinking to support scientific thinking especially for generating novel ideas in the concept forming stage. However, why couldn’t scientific thinking generate novel ideas by itself and need the assistance…
Robot control is a popular issue in robotics field. More and more researchers dedicate in developing easy and intuitive solutions for robot programming and control. The most popular approach is to recognize human’s gestures through computer vision applications. However, these computer…
After studying 12 user’s behaviors of using a microwave oven through Contexual Inquiry Method, we finally figure out that a touch free interface is needed due to oily hands of users which always interrupt the cooking process. For clean and safty reasons, we create this touch free interface for users to test again. After comparing with previous ordinary microwave door, our touch free door does improve the usability of a microwave oven.
In our daily life, there are many subtle actions which can deliver our emotions in very unique ways especially those between acquaintances. From a glance, one can perceive not only the other’s existence but demands and feelings. Via a smile and a blink, one can deliver good intentions…
Co-Music room is a music space designed for children to explore the music through collaborating with each other. The original idea is to allow children to play the music and experience the corporations though the process. This space, an 8×8 cube, consists of two fundamental components…
Storytelling Cubes, unlike other open ended storytelling systems giving children unlimited capacity of extension to create unlimited stories, enable children to discover as many as possible combinations by means of providing a limited set of cubes where elements…
Recently, more and more researchers dedicated in the development of human computer interaction for CAD systems, such as gestural input of three dimensional coordinates, flexible manipulation of NURBS objects, and the creation of force feedback. These research results indicated that…