title: Smart Toys Designed for Detecting Developmental Delays.
abstract: In this paper, we describe the design considerations and implementation of a smart toy system, a technology for supporting the automatic recording and analysis for detecting developmental delays recognition when children play using the smart toy. To achieve this goal, we take advantage of the current commercial sensor features (reliability, low consumption, easy integration, etc.) to develop a series of sensor-based low-cost devices. Specifically, our prototype system consists of a tower of cubes augmented with wireless sensing capabilities and a mobile computing platform that collect the information sent from the cubes allowing the later analysis by childhood development professionals in order to verify a normal behaviour or to detect a potential disorder. This paper presents the requirements of the toy and discusses our choices in toy design, technology used, selected sensors, process to gather data from the sensors and generate information that will help in the decision-making and communication of the information to the collector system. In addition, we also describe the play activities the system supports.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Automática, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Alcalá. Campus Universitario, 28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. diego.rivera@uah.es.
authors.forename: Diego
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rivera
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Automática, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Alcalá. Campus Universitario, 28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. antonio.garciah@uah.es.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Automática, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Alcalá. Campus Universitario, 28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. bernardo.alarcos@uah.es.
authors.forename: Bernardo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Alarcos
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Automática, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Alcalá. Campus Universitario, 28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. juanramon.velasco@uah.es.
authors.forename: Juan R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Velasco
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Psicología, Departamento de Psicología Biológica y de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Calle Iván Pavlov, 6, 28049 Madrid, Spain. eugenio.ortega@uam.es.
authors.forename: José Eugenio
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Ortega
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Automática, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Alcalá. Campus Universitario, 28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. isaias.martinezy@uah.es.
authors.forename: Isaías
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Martínez-Yelmo
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D010988:Play and Playthings; D059015:Wireless Technology / Q000295:instrumentation
keywords: Internet of Things; children; health; intelligent toys