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Toy or Useful Technology?

2006
The authors present case studies of telemedicine programs at three healthcare institutions in Boston, Massachusetts to better understand why telemedicine has not spread as quickly or as far as one would expect, given its promise.
Hüseyin Tanriverdi, C. Suzanne Iacono
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Any-Cubes: A Children's Toy for Learning AI: Enhanced Play with Deep Learning and MQTT

Message Understanding Conference, 2019
Here we present Any-Cubes, a prototype toy with which children can intuitively and playfully explore and understand machine learning as well as Internet of Things technology. Our prototype is a combination of deep learning-based image classification [12]
Alexander Scheidt, Tim Pulver
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Toying with technology in elementary education

FIE '98. 28th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Moving from 'Teacher-Centered' to 'Learner-Centered' Education. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.98CH36214), 2002
Sponsored by a Miller Faculty Fellowship at Iowa State University, a new course was developed and offered for the first time in the fall semester of 1997. The course is called "Toying with Technology" and is designed to explain the principles behind many of the technological innovations in wide use today.
L.J. Genalo, C.T. Wright, K.B. Wright
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A proposal for an AI-based toy to encourage and assess symbolic play in autistic children

Behavior and Information Technology
In this paper, we provide an in-depth description of Echo, an interactive, smart toy, designed to encourage the symbolic play in autistic children. Symbolic play is a key competence in the cognitive development, and it is observed for instance when a ...
Giampiero Bartolomei, B. Özcan, Giovanni Granato, G. Baldassarre, Valerio Sperati   +4 more
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Analyzing the Factors of Business Digitalization and Their Impact on the Entrepreneurial Growth of the Handmade Toy Industry

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries
The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of various factors of business digitalization, such as digital procurement (DP), digital technology (DT), artificial intelligence (AI), digital social media (DSM), digital marketing and sales ...
U. Yadav, R. Rena
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Attitudes to information technology: toys or tools?

Nursing Standard, 1999
Information systems are a powerful 'engine' of change. Managing the change process effectively, whilst implementing a new information system within the care environment, may facilitate the efficient development of quality patient care. Incorporating the use of a computerised information system into everyday professional practice, requires nurses not ...
S, Levy, B, Williams
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Gendered Packaging of a STEM Toy Influences Children's Play, Mechanical Learning, and Mothers' Play Guidance.

Child Development, 2018
To study effects of the gender-packaging of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) toys, mother-child dyads (31 daughters; 30 sons; M = 5.2 years) were randomly assigned to play with a mechanical toy packaged for girls (GoldieBlox) or ...
Emily F. Coyle, L. S. Liben
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WORM-E: An Interactive Toy Enriching Children's Bodily and Social Play

Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 2020
How can children develop a healthy level of body-awareness and social sensitivity in a technology-mediated life full of computers and digital devices? With WORM-E, an interactive soft toy for children, we explore haptic sensations and invite for enhanced
Michaela Honauer, S. U. Yavuz, K. Kuusk
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Literacy Toy for Enhancement Phonological Awareness: A Longitudinal Study

International Conference on Computers for Handicapped Persons, 2020
In this report it is presented the results of a longitudinal pre-experimental study, it was realized a technological intervention to stimulate the phonological awareness through a tangible reading toy based on the RFID technology, consisting of a teddy ...
C. Ramos-Galarza, Hugo Arias-Flores, Omar Cóndor-Herrera, Janio Jadán-Guerrero   +3 more
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Plastic handguns that resemble toy guns: new technology creates a uniquely hazardous product.

Pediatrics, 1988
Pediatricians are well aware that handguns are a hazard for children.1-3 This hazard exists, in part, because children cannot reliably differentiate between realistic toy guns and real guns.2-5 Moreover, children holding toy guns have on occasion ...
G. Wintemute, S. Teret, J. F. Kraus
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