Topobo: A constructive assembly system with kinetic memory

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 647-654

  Raffle, Hayes Solos ^a   Parkes, Amanda J ^a   Ishii, Hiroshi ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Digital Manipulative; Education; Learning; Modular Robotics; Programming by Demonstration; Tangible Interface; Toy

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EDUCATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODULAR ROBOTS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

DIGITAL MANIPULATIVE; PROGRAMMING BY DEMONSTRATION; TANGIBLE INTERFACES; TOYS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 4544234499     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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