Designing toys with automatic play characterization for supporting the assessment of a child's development

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 89-92

  Westeyn, Tracy L ^a   Kientz, Julie A ^a   Starner, Thad E ^a   Abowd, Gregory D ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity recognition; Multimodal wireless sensing; Objectplay; Toy design

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; CHILD'S DEVELOPMENT; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; FORM FACTORS; MULTI-MODAL; OBJECTPLAY; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; RECOGNITION ALGORITHM; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION; SYSTEM SUPPORTS; WIRELESS SENSING;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DESIGN; STANDBY POWER SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 70450192360     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1463689.1463726     Document Type: Conference Paper

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