The paper describes the design of Puffy, a robotic companion for children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders that has been developed in cooperation with a team of therapists and special educators. Puffy has a combination of features which makes it unique with respect to existing robots for this target group. Puffy is mobile and its egg-shaped body is inflatable and soft. Puffy can interpret children's gestures and movements, facial expressions and emotions. It communicates using voice, lights, movements in space, as well as inside-out projections in its body.
Gelsomini, M., Leonardi, G., Degiorgi, M., Garzotto, F., Penati, S., Silvestri, J., et al. (2017). Puffy - An inflatable mobile interactive companion for children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. In CHI EA '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp.2599-2606). Association for Computing Machinery [10.1145/3027063.3053245].
Puffy - An inflatable mobile interactive companion for children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Garzotto F.;
2017
Abstract
The paper describes the design of Puffy, a robotic companion for children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders that has been developed in cooperation with a team of therapists and special educators. Puffy has a combination of features which makes it unique with respect to existing robots for this target group. Puffy is mobile and its egg-shaped body is inflatable and soft. Puffy can interpret children's gestures and movements, facial expressions and emotions. It communicates using voice, lights, movements in space, as well as inside-out projections in its body.
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