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Showing 1 to 20 of 185 for “"toys"”.
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Vision based interactive toys environment
… physical objects, referred to as “Interactive Toys” (e.g. any pieces of pawns, cars, animals) in a collaborative environment, referred to as “Interactive Toys Environment” (e.g. playsets or boardgames).<br/><br/>The study comprises the development of novel algorithms that detect the intrusion …
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Toys as Tools for Circuit Design
… hands-on, object-based circuit lessons called Ozitoys. Titled Toys as Tools for Circuit Design, the project critiques the conventional use of the breadboard in early electrical engineering education—an open-ended and often intimidating tool for beginners attempting to translate circuit schematics …
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The exploration of concepts for projectile toys
(cont.) The second concept, eDarts, involved incorporating a capacitor powered micro-circuit and LED into foam darts similar to those used in the current line of Nerf® products. The eDarts created a tracer shot or laser bullet" effect when used in low light conditions. Safety, projectile mass, and …
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A privacy preservation framework for smart connected toys
… and pervasive development of Smart Connected Toys (SCTs), built to aid children in learning, socialization, and development. A SCT is a physical embodiment artifact that acts like a child user interface for toy computing services on Cloud. SCTs extend the capability of the traditional toy into …
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Gift-giving of toys from adults to children.
… consumer behaviour habits of adults giving of toys to children aged 11 and under as gifts. It is borne out of a need to understand why adults buy gifts for children adding to the issues on consumption practices and materialism. It begins by discussing the issues of researching with children, …
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The exploration of quieter actuation in animatronic toys
… research was to find ways to actuate animatronic toys quietly. A practical assessment was conducted to evaluate a variety of quieter actuation methods for animatronic toys for Hasbro®, the client. Also, an evaluation of acoustical enclosures was carried out to determine if they were an effective …
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Curlybot : designing a new class of computational toys
… called curlybot, as the basis for a new class of toys aimed at children in their early stages of development - ages four and up. curlybot is an autonomous two-wheeled vehicle with embedded electronics that can records how it has been moved on any flat surface and then plays back that motion …
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Contamination of Stuffed Cloth Toys on a Pediatric Unit
… of the study was to determine if cloth stuffed toys used by children in the pediatric unit of Loma Linda University Hospital carry microbacterial pathogens that are the same type as those pathogens found in the throat of the child using the toy. A second purpose was to determine how long the …
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Money, beer, and toys : essays on consumer decision making
Essay 1: Shopping Goals, Goal Concreteness, and Conditional Promotions. We propose a two-stage model to describe the increasing concreteness of consumers' goals during the shopping process, testing the model through a series of field experiments at a convenience store. Using a number of different …
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Extending Sam : utilizing multiple toys to enhance interactive storytelling
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
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The development of new actuation systems for mechatronic toys
… systems currently used in low-cost mechatronic toys have numerous areas for potential improvement. The development of a new actuation system that is more efficient, produces a more realistic product, or is cheaper has the potential to significantly increase both the quality of the final product …
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The User Experience of Disney Infinity: Do Smart Toys Matter?
… mode both with and without the associated smart toys, or Disney characters. Results show that while there was no significant difference in immersion for either group, nor were there any significant correlations between variables, there was a preference for playing the game with the associated …
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Batteries not included : the marketing of sex toys to women
… strategies. A chapter on the history of sex toys is included along with a section on the state laws regulating such products. Home party sex toy companies are examined with emphasis on the changing demographics of the sex toy user. Woman-owned sex toy stores such as Good Vibrations are …
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Toys and cartoons: the correlation between animated properties and toy products
<p>No abstract available.</p>
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Toys, Consumption, and Middle Class Childhood in Imperial Germany, 1871--1918
… The vibrant consumer culture surrounding toys facilitated this very public debate. Producers willingly responded to buyers from both camps, and individual consumers created and marketed their own toys. The making, marketing, and consumption of miniatures formed a site around which we can …
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The Effects of Toys on The Play Behavior of Handicapped Preschoolers
… uses that handicapped preschool children made of toys commonly found in early childhood classrooms. Of particular interest was the question of whether these toys were used in ways different from nonhandicapped preschool children. Sets of toys were selected that are used primarily in social or …
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Adult's Perceptions of Children's Aggressive Play with Advertised and Non-Advertised Toys.
… examined adults’ perceptions of aggression in toys and toy commercials targeted toward young boys. The subjects, 262 undergraduate psychology students, completed the Buss/Perry Aggression Questionnaire and rated either a videotape of 10 boy-oriented toy commercials or slides of 10 …
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Embedding Sensory Preferences into Toys to Enhance Toy Play in Toddlers with Disabilities
Playing with toys as a means of environmental engagement has long been considered important in early child development (Messer, Rachford, McCarthy, & Yarrow, 1987; Wolery & Werts, 1994). However, children with highly significant disabilities often engage in toy play less frequently than their peers …
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Affective social quest (ASQ) : teaching emotion recognition with interactive media & wireless expressive toys
In this thesis, I investigate new ways to use affective computing and multimedia tools to augment a child's learning of emotional expression. I develop the hypothesis that these tools can be particularly useful to children with autism and their practitioners. I test the hypothesis by building a …
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