User study of a new smart toy for children's storytelling

2014-01-01
Kara, Nuri
Aydin, Cansu Cigdem
Çağıltay, Kürşat
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This article introduces StoryTech, a smart storytelling toy that offers children a mixed reality environment in which to tell imaginative stories. During usability testing, an empirical study was carried out with 90 child participants. The findings indicated that StoryTech creates a rich storytelling experience, especially for ages five and six.
Smart toy, Mixed reality, Storytelling, Children, User study
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36159
INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology, Article

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N. Kara, C. C. Aydin, and K. Çağıltay, “User study of a new smart toy for children’s storytelling,” INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS, pp. 551–563, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36159.
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