Puffy
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Puffy: a Mobile Inflatable Interactive Companion for children with Neurodevelopmental Disorder
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| Coordinator: | AndreaBonarini (andrea.bonarini@polimi.it), FrancaGarzotto () |
| Tutor: | MirkoGelsomini (mirko.gelsomini@polimi.it) |
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| Students: | GiuseppeDiFrancesco (giuseppe1.difrancesco@mail.polimi.it), SimonePenati (simone1.penati@mail.polimi.it) |
| Research Area: | Robotics |
| Research Topic: | Robot Development |
| Start: | 2017/10/13 |
| Status: | Active |
| Level: | Ms |
| Type: | Thesis |
Description
Puffy is a robotic companion that has been designed in cooperation with a team of therapists and special educators as a learning & play companion for children with Neurodevelopmental Disorder (NDD). Puffy has a combination of features that support multisensory stimuli and multimodal interaction and make this robot unique with respect to existing robotic devices used for children with NDD. The egg-shaped body of Puffy is inflatable, soft, and mobile. Puffy can interpret child's gestures and movements, facial expressions and emotions; it communicates with the child using voice, lights and projections embedded in its body, as well as movements in space.
