Topobo: a constructive assembly system with kinetic memory

By Hayes Raffle, Amanda J. Parkes, Hiroshi Ishii. International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2004

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The tangible user interface and its evolution (2008, background): “The Tangible Media Group is exploring the new genre of TUIs that incor 36 June 2008/Vol. 51, No. 6 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM porates actuation mechanisms to realize kinetic memory for educational toys like Curlybot [1] and Topobo [7].”
Exploring the use of tangible user interfaces for human-robot interaction: a comparative study (2008, background): “[21] allows kids to assemble static and motorized plastic”
Do tangible interfaces enhance learning? (2007, methodology): “An example of a novel expressive tangible system is Raffle, Parkes and Ishii’s [40] Topobo system.”
Radical atoms: beyond tangible bits, toward transformable materials (2012, background): “Curlybot [7] and Topobo [8] are examples of toys that distill ideas relating to gesture, form, dynamic movement, physics, and storytelling.”
A taxonomy for and analysis of tangible interfaces (2004, background): “’’ This paper, building on others of a similar spirit [18, 26, 46], aroused great interest in the research community—‘‘CiteSeer’’ has 190 citations for the TUI paper alone [12].”
Shape-changing interfaces: a review of the design space and open research questions (2012, methodology): “Both Kinematics [32] and Topobo [39] allow users to construct different shape-changing kinetic structures through assembling parts.”