Title
Interactive Play Objects: The Influence of Multimodal Output on Open-Ended Play
Abstract
In this paper we investigate how providing multiple output modalities affects open-ended play with interactive toys. We designed a play object which reacts to children's physical behavior by providing multimodal output and we compared it with a unimodal variant, focusing on the experience and creativity of the children. In open-ended play children create their own games inspired by the interaction with a play object. We show how the modalities affect the number of games played, the type and diversity of games that the children created, and the way children used the different feedback modalities as inspiration for their games. Furthermore, we discuss the consequences of our design choices on open-ended play.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-02315-6_8
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
open-ended play,creativity,social interaction,interactive toys,children,multimodality,design
Modalities,Social relation,Multimodality,Simulation,Computer science,Creativity,Multimedia
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9
1867-8211
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.74
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eva Hopma1151.74
Tilde Bekker235037.31
Janienke Sturm335636.54