Internet of Toys: An e-Pet overview and proposed innovative Social Toy Service Platform

Wang, Wen-Nan; Kuo, Vivian; King, Chung-Ta; Chang, Chiu-Ping

doi:10.1109/compsym.2010.5685507

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“…The concepts of IoToys and smart toys are close, but not synonyms. The term IoToys emphasizes the internet connection, through WiFi or Bluetooth, as one of the main traits of such toys (Wang, Kuo, King, & Chang, 2010) and also the embedding of sensors that allow interaction with children or other toys (Holloway & Green, 2016). Interaction is the central feature of the smart toys conceptualization, highlighting the affordance of human-like interaction with children.…”

Section: Definition Of Smart Toysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Young children, digital media and smart toys: How perceptions shape adoption and domestication

Brito¹,

Dias²,

Oliveira³

2018

Brit J Educational Tech

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Contemporary homes are filled with digital technologies, and children are exposed to them almost since birth, initiating their first digital experiences at very early ages (Chaudron et al., , Young children (0–8)). This trend is expected to become stronger, as our future has been envisioned around the concept of the IoT (Internet of Things), and the first smart toys are arriving at the homes of digitally savvy families. This study focuses on the digital practices of young children, looking particularly at smart toys, aiming to: a) explore how smart toys are being adopted by families, considering the perceptions of children and parents about drivers and barriers to adoption; and b) understand the domestication of smart toys. Our research is exploratory and builds on the theoretical framework, methodological protocols and ethical guidelines of the international projects “Young Children (0–8) and Digital Technologies” (Chaudron et al., , Chaudron et al., Young children (0–8); Dias and Brito, 2016, 2017, Crianças (0 a 8 anos)) and “Media and Social Discourses around Young Children and IoToys” (Mascheroni & Holloway, 2017). Our methodology is qualitative, based on visits to families including interviews with children and parents and participant observation. We selected a purposive sample of 21 medium‐ or high‐income and digitally savvy families in Portugal. Concerning drivers and barriers for adoption, most children identify several smart toys and express interest in having them. Parents are motivated by the amount of satisfaction that the toy will afford the children and the added‐value in terms of learning or developing skills. However, most parents prefer mechanical toys, sports or outdoors activities and the high price is an obstacle. Concerning domestication, smart toys are still scarce in homes and perceived as novelty, thus being in a very early stage of domestication.

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Section: Definition Of Smart Toysmentioning

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Young children, digital media and smart toys: How perceptions shape adoption and domestication

Brito¹,

Dias²,

Oliveira³

2018

Brit J Educational Tech

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“…This approach to the IoT using toys as smart objects is not exclusive for the purposes presented in this paper. For instance, Wang et al [ 15 ] explored the relationship of the IoT and toys (Internet of toys) in terms of interaction between toys and social networks. In addition, the Disney Research laboratories worked in the Internet of toys through the European CALIPSO project [ 16 ], which the main goal was to provide networks of connected smart objects, but their main efforts were on the design of low-consumption and low-latency communication protocols between the objects [ 17 ].…”

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A Smart Toy to Enhance the Decision-Making Process at Children’s Psychomotor Delay Screenings: A Pilot Study

García¹,

Ruiz²,

Rivera³

et al. 2017

J Med Internet Res

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BackgroundEDUCERE (“Ubiquitous Detection Ecosystem to Care and Early Stimulation for Children with Developmental Disorders”) is an ecosystem for ubiquitous detection, care, and early stimulation of children with developmental disorders. The objectives of this Spanish government-funded research and development project are to investigate, develop, and evaluate innovative solutions to detect changes in psychomotor development through the natural interaction of children with toys and everyday objects, and perform stimulation and early attention activities in real environments such as home and school. Thirty multidisciplinary professionals and three nursery schools worked in the EDUCERE project between 2014 and 2017 and they obtained satisfactory results. Related to EDUCERE, we found studies based on providing networks of connected smart objects and the interaction between toys and social networks.ObjectiveThis research includes the design, implementation, and validation of an EDUCERE smart toy aimed to automatically detect delays in psychomotor development. The results from initial tests led to enhancing the effectiveness of the original design and deployment. The smart toy, based on stackable cubes, has a data collector module and a smart system for detection of developmental delays, called the EDUCERE developmental delay screening system (DDSS).MethodsThe pilot study involved 65 toddlers aged between 23 and 37 months (mean=29.02, SD 3.81) who built a tower with five stackable cubes, designed by following the EDUCERE smart toy model. As toddlers made the tower, sensors in the cubes sent data to a collector module through a wireless connection. All trials were video-recorded for further analysis by child development experts. After watching the videos, experts scored the performance of the trials to compare and fine-tune the interpretation of the data automatically gathered by the toy-embedded sensors.ResultsJudges were highly reliable in an interrater agreement analysis (intraclass correlation 0.961, 95% CI 0.937-0.967), suggesting that the process was successful to separate different levels of performance. A factor analysis of collected data showed that three factors, trembling, speed, and accuracy, accounted for 76.79% of the total variance, but only two of them were predictors of performance in a regression analysis: accuracy (P=.001) and speed (P=.002). The other factor, trembling (P=.79), did not have a significant effect on this dependent variable.ConclusionsThe EDUCERE DDSS is ready to use the regression equation obtained for the dependent variable “performance” as an algorithm for the automatic detection of psychomotor developmental delays. The results of the factor analysis are valuable to simplify the design of the smart toy by taking into account only the significant variables in the collector module. The fine-tuning of the toy process module will be carried out by following the specifications resulting from the analysis of the data to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the product.

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“…Domingo [14] presents how these IoT devices avoid any normal life disturbance. The Internet of Toys (IoToy), as we name this flavour of the IoT, has been used in [15], but in a slightly different sense. In that work, the term IoToy was used to define electronic toys that are able to interact with the environment and the player by using his/her favourite social network.…”

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Smart Toys Designed for Detecting Developmental Delays

Rivera

García

Alarcos

et al. 2016

Sensors

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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 series of sensor-based low-cost devices. Specifically, our prototype system consists of a tower of cubes augmented with wireless sensing capabilities and a mobile computing platform that collect the information sent from the cubes allowing the later analysis by childhood development professionals in order to verify a normal behaviour or to detect a potential disorder. This paper presents the requirements of the toy and discusses our choices in toy design, technology used, selected sensors, process to gather data from the sensors and generate information that will help in the decision-making and communication of the information to the collector system. In addition, we also describe the play activities the system supports.

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Internet of Toys: An e-Pet overview and proposed innovative Social Toy Service Platform

Cited by 15 publications

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Young children, digital media and smart toys: How perceptions shape adoption and domestication

Young children, digital media and smart toys: How perceptions shape adoption and domestication

A Smart Toy to Enhance the Decision-Making Process at Children’s Psychomotor Delay Screenings: A Pilot Study

Smart Toys Designed for Detecting Developmental Delays

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