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Item Design and development of a smart storytelling toy(Interactive Learning Environments, 2014-31-05) KARA, Nuri; AYDIN, Cansu Çiğdem; ÇAĞILTAY, KürşatBecause computers generally make children passive listeners, new technological devices need to support children’s storytelling activities. This article introduces the StoryTech, a smart toy that includes a virtual space comprised of computer based graphics and characters as well as a real space that involves stuffed animals, background cards and a receiver panel. When children put real objects on the receiver panel, the computer displays related backgrounds and characters. Through this flexible context, children are expected to tell a story about what they see on the screen. The aim of this article is to present the development period of the StoryTech and to provide design principles for smart toy technologies based on the usability study. The article focuses on attributes of new technology and the significance of supporting storytelling activities to find the best combination of and moderation between real and virtual spaces.Item Smart Toy Based Learning(Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, 2014-05-04) ÇAĞILTAY, Kürşat; KARA, Nuri; AYDIN, Cansu ÇiğdemThis chapter examines the general characteristics of and related recent research on smart toys. Smart toys can be defined as new forms of toys featuring both tangible objects and electronic components that facilitate two-way child–smart toy interactions to carry out pur poseful tasks. In this chapter, smart toy based learning projects are discussed and the char acteristics of smart toys as cognitive tools to facilitate learning are analyzed. This chapter also covers the relationship between smart toys and children’s developmental stages—with a particular focus on motivation—in order to understand smart toys’ potential effects on children.Item User Study of a New Smart Toy for Children’s Storytelling(Interactive Learning Environments, 2012-08-04) KARA, Nuri; AYDIN, Cansu Çiğdem; ÇAĞILTAY, KürşatThis paper introduces the smart storytelling toy (StoryTech) which provides mixed reality environment. StoryTech with a flexible context leads children to tell their imaginative stories. For usability testing of StoryTech, an empirical study was carried out with totally 90 children. The findings indicated that StoryTech created richer experience especially for age groups of five and six in producing stories.