Posey

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assembling a teddy bear puppet with posey

escape machine maze and tangible state machine controller

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 Video
4 Presentations
5 Press

[edit] Researchers

Michael Philetus Weller

Mark D Gross

Ellen Yi-Luen Do

[edit] Publications

2009

M P Weller, E Y-L Do and M D Gross (2009): State Machines are Child’s Play: Observing children age 9 to 11 playing with Escape Machine, in Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2009), ACM. pp 170-173. pdf

M P Weller, M D Gross and E Y-L Do (2009): Tangible Sketching in 3D with Posey. In Ext Abstracts of Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2009), ACM. pp 3193-3198. pdf

M P Weller, E Y-L Do and M D Gross (2009): An Optocoupled Poseable Ball and Socket Joint for Computationally Enhanced Construction Kits, in Proceedings of the Robot Communication and Coordination (RoboComm 2009), IEEE. pp 1-6. pdf

2008

M P Weller, E Y-L Do and M D Gross (2008): Escape Machine: Teaching computational thingking with a tangible state machine game, in Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2008), ACM. pp 282-289. pdf

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

2007

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

[edit] Video

Stop motion video of making a puppet in the Posey Puppet Show application. Square in bottom right shows the onscreen Puppet Show application window as puppet is assembled and then skinned to create a bearosaur.

download video: mp4