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Showing 1 to 20 of 295 for “"toy"”.
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Invariant Manifolds of a Toy Climate Model
<p>According to astronomical theory, ice ages are caused by variations in the Earth's orbit. However, ice core data shows strong fluctuations in ice volume at a low frequency not significantly present in orbital variations. To understand how this might occur, the dynamics of a two dimensional …
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An interactive toy robot: Learning through play
… essential. The design of a robotic interaction toy to help children learn about the ocean offered a worthwhile and interesting thesis topic. In order to gain first-hand knowledge of this user group, I conducted Interviews with teachers and observed children’s behavior in the Child Development …
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Characteristics and problems of the toy manufacturer
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Business & Engineering Administration, 1947.
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Adult Characteristics Associated With Gender-Typed Toy Ratings
The toys with which children play shape their development in several domains (Trawick-Smith, Russell, & Swaminathan, 2011). Exclusive or primary play with gender-typed toys may limit children's development, because toys considered appropriate for boys, girls, or both have different characteristics …
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Psychometric Issues Related to the Tinker Toy Test
… of higher cerebral functioning. The Tinker Toy Test (TTT) was introduced in 1982. This test allows an individual to demonstrate the extent of their executive capacities by permitting them to initiate, plan, and structure a potentially complex activity and carry it out independently in an …
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Play taxonomies: A toy index for product design
… with a focus on its significance in toy design. Drawing insights from prominent scholars and classification frameworks, this study introduces an approach to be used during the toy design process and nurturing constructive design critique. Beginning with Johan Huizinga's foundational …
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Telebug : a playful link between child and toy
Telebug is a prototype toy that directly connects with a child and their environment to respond in a meaningful way. To better understand and connect with the child, Telebug uses an array of wireless sensors. To respond in an interesting way, Telebug moves and "speaks" according to the data from …
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Power requirements for a rapid-fire projectile toy concept
The toy industry holds a large portion of the American consumer market, and new products are in constant demand. A new mechanism for use in children's toys has been proposed to fire small plastic balls at a rate of over four hundred per minute. A portable, small, and safe power system must be …
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Design and testing of an improved animatronic toy actuator
… of a new type of actuator for use in robotic toy automation. The work covers an incremental series of experiments that examine, analyze, prototype, and test various ideas for converting the vibration of a voice coil into rotational motion. In its final form, it is believed that this actuator …
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Entertainment Station Design for 2.00b (Toy Product Design) PLAYsentation
… an entertainment station for the audience of Toy Product Design’s (2.00b) PLAYsentation a.k.a. final presentations, with the goal of creating a festive and inclusive atmosphere with guests in costume and fully engaged with the students’ work The audience was able to walk into Killian Court and …
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The continuous refill, short-burst, hand-powered water toy
… water "blaster" has been one of the most popular toys because it is fun, safe, and easy to operate. The water guns have appeared in many design variations, ranging from the simple squirt gun to motorized water guns. This research proposes a new approach to water gun design. The design consists of …
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Dolltalk : a computational toy to enhance narrative perspective-talking
… through the mechanism of reporting speech. The toy presented works by asking children to tell stories and by playing back the stories to the child using narrative features. The ability to express the way the characters think and feel in a narrative and what motivates them to act has been shown …
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A Teaching Toy: Free Forms in an Abstract Landscape
… I find inspiration in child psychology and the toys of child's play, in 15th-century Islamic art and 20th-century Abstraction, and in naturally occurring events such as ivy twisting up a knotty tree trunk and soft ripples in a pond. The assimilation of these elements, together with the ideas …
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The role of parents in the emergence of sex differences in children’s play: Interrelations among parental attitudes, parental toy choices, and children’s toy preferences.
Girls and boys tend to play with different toys. In general, girls prefer dolls, domestic toys, and beauty sets more than boys do, whereas boys prefer toy vehicles, construction toys, toy weapons, and sports-related toys more than girls do. Several mechanisms have been suggested to contribute to …
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A location privacy model and framework for mobile toy computing
Many toys on the market are becoming integrated with the sensory and networking capabilities of mobile technology. Toy computing is an emerging area of research with the characteristics of physical computing, services computing, mobile technologies, and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). There is …
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Toy or Tool: Student Perceptions of a Notebook Computer University
<p>Notebook computers, on many university campuses, have moved beyond being an educational accessory to being mandatory equipment for a college education. The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe and gain an understanding of the sense students make of learning at a notebook university …
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A descriptive and experimental evaluation of preschooler aggressive toy play
Aggressive toy play is commonly observed in early childhood classrooms, yet strategies to address this problem behavior have not been articulated in the research literature. In Study 1, we examined the relation between aggressive play and preference for three toy types: (a) structured "aggressive" …
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Toy talk: A simple strategy to promote richer grammatical input
… was to determine whether brief instruction on toy talk, a language facilitation technique designed to increase the use of 3rd person subjects, would change properties of adult language input that could potentially promote syntactic analysis and grammatical growth in children. Method: Eighteen …
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