Smart Toys Designed for Detecting Developmental Delays

Smart Toys Designed for Detecting Developmental Delays

In this paper, we describe the design considerations and implementation of a smart toy system, a technology for supporting the automatic recording and analysis for detecting developmental delays recognition when children play using the smart toy. To achieve this goal, we take advantage of the current commercial sensor features (reliability, low consumption, easy integration, etc.) to develop a ...

Designing smart toys for the cognitive enrichment of elephants

This project investigates the potential for designing playful cognitive enrichment activities for captive elephants. We explore the usefulness of applying conceptual frameworks from HCI and game design to the problem of developing speciesspecific smart toys that promote natural behaviour and provide stimulation. Figure 1. Foraging at Colchester Zoo, Feb 2014

A Smart Cache Designed for Embedded Applications

In this paper, we extend our previous investigation of split array and scalar data caches to embedded systems. More specifically we explore reconfigurable data caches where L-1 data caches are optimally partitioned into scalar caches augmented with victim caches and array caches. We do not change cache block size or set-associativities, making it easier to reconfigure cache banks. We also evalu...

The User Experience of Disney Infinity - Do Smart Toys Matter?

Networking Smart Toys with Wireless ToyBridge and ToyTalk

In this submission, emerging research challenges of smart toy networking are identified and discussed. We present a ToyBridge middleware platform that was developed to integrate physical-world smart toys with online activities, and a Visible Light Communications ToyTalk platform we developed for simple toy communications. Videos of ToyBridge and ToyTalk showcases accompanying this submission ca...