I Think I Can, I Think I Cam: A Dinosaur Story

Interaction Design & Children, 2020 Child-Robot Interaction, Prosocial Behavior, Mobile Robot

Who doesn’t love a good dinosaur? And who doesn’t love the energy of a brave little dinosaur that decides to go fishing only to find out that the fish he caught is a whopper destined for freedom and that his rowboat was going to get caught in a storm? If you’re still reading, then you agree with me that this is a definitively likeable concept. And sophomore level mechanical engineers need motivation to complete those problem sets in between the coffee and all-nighters. So – of course – I set out to develop our brave little dinosaur and to build him into an automata-style mechanism.