Pitcher is an efficient and flexible real-time software-based pitch shifter. It goes well beyond an octave shift with no strong timbre arti…
TellTale is a story construction kit whose goal is to help young children create and experiment with the structure and content of personal …
StoryBeads are an interactive wearable for constructing narratives through collecting, trading and sequencing images. Individual beads, lab…
The need for low-cost sensors and ID tags is ongoing. Our work explores how ID and sensor information can be encoded in the electromagnetic…
Building on our Expressive Footwear project, we have constructed a low-cost, compact, wireless inertial measurement unit, featuring three a…
This effort has resulted in a compact, wireless, low-power sensor card that transmits 8 analog sensor channels (4 are conditioned for press…
Almost any communications system makes best use of scarce bandwidth by making the messages sent appear to be as random as possible. This is…
Millions of humans share their homes with pet parrots. Parrots are popular pets not only because of their intelligence, but also because of…
This work has a double focus. First, considerable research has centered on designing computer tools and interfaces, "smart rooms," and comp…
The Big Thing is a massive, child-oriented music construction kit that allows multiple children to experiment with creating musical structu…
To change radically the physical shape and feeling of technology, designers must also be able to change the materials from which it is made…
Almost all kids love to sing, even if they sadly forget this later in life. Music is never work: you can only "play" it. Today's incredible…
This category of Music Toy is being designed as an inexpensive, stand-alone, sound-producing, and manipulating device that gains power when…
Imagine holding an animated pixel in the palm of your hand. What could you create with physical pixels that fit together like children's bl…
ASQ investigates ways to teach social-emotion skills to children interactively with toys. One of the first goals is to help autistic child…
The Affective Tigger is a plush toy designed to recognize and react to certain emotinal behaviors of its playmate. For example the toy ent…
The Musical Jacket, first developed in fall 1997, has recently undergone hardware and software improvements, as well as functional updating…