TY - GEN
T1 - Stuffed toys alive! Cuddly robots from fantasy world
AU - Yamashita, Yohei
AU - Ishikawa, Tatsuya
AU - Mitake, Hironori
AU - Takase, Yutaka
AU - Kato, Fumihiro
AU - Susa, Ikumi
AU - Hasegawa, Shoichi
AU - Sato, Makoto
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Stuffed toys live with all ages and hold them in some physical and mental aspects. With the soft feel and cute characters, stuffed toys play with them, sleep together and listen to their complaints. These roles of stuffed toys show that people imagine stuffed toys are interactive creature. Indeed, there are many stories and movies in which stuffed toys work as living characters. However, stuffed toys in real world are just dolls and they cannot move and react.
AB - Stuffed toys live with all ages and hold them in some physical and mental aspects. With the soft feel and cute characters, stuffed toys play with them, sleep together and listen to their complaints. These roles of stuffed toys show that people imagine stuffed toys are interactive creature. Indeed, there are many stories and movies in which stuffed toys work as living characters. However, stuffed toys in real world are just dolls and they cannot move and react.
KW - haptic interaction
KW - human friendly robot
KW - stuffed toy
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U2 - 10.1145/2343456.2343476
DO - 10.1145/2343456.2343476
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84865573131
SN - 9781450316804
T3 - ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Emerging Technologies, SIGGRAPH'12
BT - ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Emerging Technologies, SIGGRAPH'12
T2 - ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference, SIGGRAPH'12
Y2 - 5 August 2012 through 9 August 2012
ER -