Publications

Design Decisions for Interactive Environments: Evaluating the KidsRoom

Bobick A; Intille S; Davis J; Baird F; Pinhanez C; Campbell L; Ivanov Y; Schutte A; Wilson A

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March 1998

Intelligent Environments, Papers from the 1998 AAAI Spring Symposium, March 23-25, 1998, Technical Report SS-98-02, AAAI Press

Abstract

We believe the KidsRoom is the first multiperson, fully-automated, interactive, narrative environment ever constructed using nonencumbering sensors. The perceptual system that drives the KidsRoom is outlined elsewhere (Bobick et al. 1996). This paper describes our design goals, successes, and failures including several general observations that may be of interest to other designers of perceptually-based interactive environments.

http://mf.media.mit.edu/pubs/conference/KidsRoomEval.pdf