A Toy Museum in Education: Evaluation of Ankara University Toy Museum’s Training Activities

An Evaluation of Digital Cuddly Toy Museum Guides

We present the results of an evaluation of digital cuddly toy-like museum guides for young school children. The main result is that the concept is promising, but that it is important to consider the children’s prior expectations of the characters given to the guides in future designs.

Investigating the Activities of Children toward a Smart Storytelling Toy

This paper introduces StoryTech, a smart storytelling toy that features a virtual space, which includes computerbased graphics and characters, and a real space, which includes plush toys, background cards, and a communication interface. When children put real objects on the receiver panel, the computer program shows related backgrounds and characters on the screen. StoryTech encourages children...

Exocrine pancreatic adenocarcinoma in a toy breed dog

A 4-year-old female miniature pincher with a 40-day history of weight loss, lethargy and vomiting was referred to Small Animal Hospital, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran. The case also had severe jaundice, chronic diarrhoea and steatorrhoea. The efforts for saving the life of the case were not successful and finally the animal died of hypovolaemic shock and electrolyte imbal...

Creative use of a toy in health education.

A toy climbing robot

We built a simple toy climbing robot in order to explore problems related to minimalist grasping, path planning, and robot control. The robot is capable of climbing a wall of pegs either under remote control, or on the basis of a set of pre-recorded keyframes. In addition, the robot can climb certain peg configurations using a cyclic gait. All communications are sent through an infrared connect...