PINOKY: A Ring That Animates Your Plush Toys
Yuta Sugiura, Calista Lee, Masayasu Ogata, Anusha Withana, Yasutoshi Makino, Daisuke Sakamoto, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi
Abstract
PINOKY is a wireless ring-like device that can be externally attached to any plush toy as an accessory that animates the toy, such as by moving its limbs. A user is thus able to instantly convert any plush toy into a soft robot. The user can control the toy remotely or input the movement desired by moving the plush toy and having the data recorded and played back. Unlike other methods for animating plush toys, PINOKY is non-intrusive, so alterations to the toy are not required. In a user study, 1) the roles of plush toys in the participants’ daily lives were examined, 2) how the participants played with plush toys without PINOKY was observed, 3) how they played with plush toys with the device was observed and their reactions to the device were surveyed. On the basis of the results, potential applications were conceptualized to illustrate the utility of PINOKY.
Publication
- Yuta Sugiura, Yasutoshi Makino, Daisuke Sakamoto, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi,
"PINOKY: A Ring That Animates Your Plush Toys",
8th ACM/IEEE International Confrence on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2013), Tokyo, March 3-6, 2013.
Honorable Mention Demonstration Award - Yuta Sugiura, Calista Lee, Masayasu Ogata, Anusha Withana, Yasutoshi Makino, Daisuke Sakamoto, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi.
"PINOKY: a ring that animates your plush toys".
The 30th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2012), pp.725-734, Austin, Texas, May 5-10.
-
Yuta Sugiura, Calista Lee, Anusha Withana, Yasutoshi Makino, Daisuke Sakamoto, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi.
"PINOKY: A Ring That Animates Your Plush Toys",
ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2011 Emerging Technologies, Article No.14, Hong Kong, December 2011.
Video
Media
- engadget news, Dec 19th 2011