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Article User Study of a New Smart Toy for Children’s Storytelling(Interactive Learning Environments, 2012) Kara, Nuri; Aydın, Cansu Çiğdem; Çağıltay, KürşatThis 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.Article Smart Toy Based Learning(Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, 2014) Çağıltay, Kürşat; Kara, Nuri; Aydın, Cansu ÇiğdemThis chapter examines the general characteristics of and related recent research on smart toys. Smart toys can be defined as new forms of toys featuring both tangible objects and electronic components that facilitate two-way child–smart toy interactions to carry out pur poseful tasks. In this chapter, smart toy based learning projects are discussed and the char acteristics of smart toys as cognitive tools to facilitate learning are analyzed. This chapter also covers the relationship between smart toys and children’s developmental stages—with a particular focus on motivation—in order to understand smart toys’ potential effects on children.
