FabToy is an innovative plush toy designed with a 24-sensor array of fabric-based pressure sensors. This design allows for extensive spatial sensing coverage without compromising the toy's natural feel and softness. The toy utilizes optimized hardware and software to enhance accuracy and reduce power consumption, achieving over 83% accuracy in detecting various human interactions such as swiping and patting. This technology highlights potential advancements in interactive toys, playing a significant role in children's development.
Our contributions include a) sensor array fabrication to maximize coverage and dynamic range, b) data acquisition and triggering methods to minimize the cost of sampling a large number of channels.
We demonstrate that we can achieve high accuracy of more than 83% for robustly detecting and localizing complex human interactions such as swiping, patting, holding, and tickling in different regions of the toy.
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