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GENTORO: a system for supporting children's storytelling using handheld projectors and a robot

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Masanori Sugimoto,

Toshitaka Ito,

Tuan Ngoc Nguyen,

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IDC '09: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1551788.1551832

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This paper describes a system called GENTORO that uses a robot and a handheld projector for supporting children's storytelling activities. GENTORO differs from many existing systems in that children can make a robot play their own story in a physical space augmented by mixed-reality technologies. A user study conducted in collaboration with elementary school children and teachers indicates that GENTORO's features can enhance children's embodied participation in, and their level of engagement with, their storytelling activities, and can support children in designing and expressing creative and original stories

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