Posey

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assembling a teddy bear puppet with posey

acetylene modeled with posey

Posey is a computationally enhanced poseable hub and strut construction kit that can be used as an interface to applications running on a host computer. Its optocoupled ball and socket joints transmit local topology information and determine the roll, pitch and yaw of connections. Zigbee transceivers in each hub communicate this data wirelessly back to the host computer. The host computer assembles a representation of the physical model as the user creates and configures it. This representation can then be used by application programs to control models in particular domains. For example, a skeleton of a puppet can be used to control the movement of a more detailed virtual puppet to create an online puppet show. And by connecting posey to a molecule modeling application, information on different molecules can be retrieved just by building the molecule using hubs as atoms and struts as bonds.

See posey development for information for developers.

1 Researchers
2 Publications
3 Presentations
4 Press

[edit] Researchers

Michael Philetus Weller

Mark D Gross

Ellen Yi-Luen Do

[edit] Publications

(to appear) M P Weller, E Y-L Do and M D Gross. Escape Machine: Building a tangible state machine game controller with Posey, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2008), June 11-13, Chicago, USA, 2008.

M P Weller, E Y-L Do and M D Gross. Posey: Instrumenting a Poseable Hub and Strut Toy, in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI 2008), 2008. 39-46. pdf

M P Weller, M D Gross and E Y-L Do. Posey: a computationally enhanced hub and strut constrution kit, working poster, 2007. pdf