Puffy

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Puffy: a Mobile Inflatable Interactive Companion for children with Neurodevelopmental Disorder
Image of the project Puffy
Coordinator: AndreaBonarini (andrea.bonarini@polimi.it), FrancaGarzotto ()
Tutor: MirkoGelsomini (mirko.gelsomini@polimi.it)
Collaborator:
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.