Fontlings Demo
This demonstration shows an early version of Fontlings with the sentence “Fontlings! Are fun and alive!” and the behavior “Happy” applied to the first word, and then to all words in the sentence. Finally, the…
This demonstration shows an early version of Fontlings with the sentence “Fontlings! Are fun and alive!” and the behavior “Happy” applied to the first word, and then to all words in the sentence. Finally, the…
This demonstration shows an iRobot Create with a UMPC (a small Tablet PC with resistive digitizer) on it. The UMPC communicates with the robot via serial port. The UMPC is used to enter the story…
This demonstration shows a robotics playset with two robots and toy trees on a PixelSense table which displays the grass on a park with a lake. The user’s cards have a word on one side…
This demonstration shows the use of cards that have a word on one side and a tag on the other side on a PixelSense table with the nouns “A banana”, “A dragon”, and “Michel” (personalized…
This demonstration shows a child selecting a sentence within an existing story on the device. The selected sentence is “One day, a rocket flew over a boy in the backyard.” The sentence starts acting out…
This demonstration shows a child selecting a sentence within an existing story on the device. The selected sentence is “One day, a rocket flew over a boy in the backyard.” The sentence starts acting out…
This demonstration shows a child creating a new actor by opening the sketch tool, selecting a man body, using a picture for the face, typing a name (“Michel” in this example), and sketching over hair…
This demonstration shows a child typing “Michel kicked the pizza” followed by a period. StoryBaker animates the sentence by using the pizza drawn previously with the same background (town), since no location changed is specified…
This demonstration shows a child typing “Later Michel ate a pizza in the town” followed by a period. StoryBaker automatically finds out that there is no visual for the word “pizza” and opens a sketchpad…
This demonstration shows a child navigating through the pages of a story (one sentence per page) and seeing the corresponding animation for each page.