User Study of a New Smart Toy for Children’s Storytelling

Abstract

This 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.