ZOOO: A Multi-animatronics Stage to Enhance Children’s Creativity for Storytelling

🥇 Best Hardware Innovation Award | Best Poster

Qiuyu Lu, Qiuheqi Zhong, Chengpeng Mao, Yejun Liu, Sirui Tan, Haipeng Mi. UIST 2015 Student Innovation Contest | CHCHI 2016 Poster. PDF,


Abstract: This paper presents an animatronic stage to encourage children to be more creative in storytelling. ZOOO is a multi-animatronics stage that can control several animatronics simultaneously. It enable displacement of animatronics and make interaction among animatronics much more plentiful. Our user evaluation shows that ZOOO can enhance children’s creativity and broaden the stories they can tell while making animatronic shows.

The branches, the panels and the base of ZOOO

Qiuyu (Luca)

Director of the Interbeing Lab

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