Papers
CHI 2002
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Minneapolis, Minnesota
20-25 April 2002
© 2002 ACM

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Dolltalk: A computational toy to enhance children's creativity
Catherine Vaucelle, Tristan Jehan
MIT Media Laboratory
[cati, tristan]@media.mit.edu


ABSTRACT
This paper represents a novel approach and interface for encouraging children to tell and act out original stories. "Dolltalk" is a toy that simulates speech recognition by capturing the gestures and speech of a child. The toy then plays back the child's pretend-play speech in altered voices representing the characteres in the child's story. Dolltalk's tangible interface and ability to retell a child's story may enhance a child's creativity in narrative elaboration.