Mechanix: an interactive display for exploring engineering design through a tangible interface
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction
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PuppetPlay is a dynamic puppet theater kit that combines embodied and virtual play to foster reading comprehension. It demonstrates the potential of basic augmented reality technologies to promote literacy development. PuppetPlay consists of a set of low-cost puppets tagged with fiducial markers that display corresponding images on a virtual screen when detected by a laptop's web camera. Children can use the physical puppets to animate and record their own digital retellings and extensions of stories. It aspires to make creative co-production of digital media accessible to young children in developing country contexts and enable local language stories to be captured for later use as teaching resources. In this paper, we present the design of PuppetPlay and its application in Uganda and El Salvador.