This book reader captures live recordings while reading children's books, facilitating natural interactions between children and parents without interruptions. The recordings can be played back later, allowing children to interact with books without needing their parents to read them aloud.
Hardware:
1 Raspberry Pi Zero W
Bluetooth headsets
1 Hall sensor
2 micro LEDs
Strong magnets
1 330 Ohm resistor
1 X Ohm resistor
Recording: Once the book is open, it starts recording interactions between both users (parents & children) will start recording.
Stop Recording: Recording stops when the book is closed.
Playback: the user can plug headphones into the back of the device, which switches it into playback mode. In playback mode, opening the book starts the playback of previously recorded data
Contributors:
Beau Schneider (Spring 2024)
Priss Harbuck (Spring 2024)
Yin Kyay Wai (Summer 2024)
Belen Saavedra (Fall 2024)
YounSoon Takei (Spring 2025)
Original Paper:
Ivan Poupyrev, Haruo Oba, Takuo Ikeda, and Eriko Iwabuchi. 2008. Designing embodied interfaces for casual sound recording devices. In CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '08). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2129–2134. https://doi.org/10.1145/1358628.1358644