@inproceedings{977b6202546941e0b8f9ef9ff2935300,
title = "Designing action-characterizing toy blocks for behavior assessments",
abstract = "Playing with toy blocks reveals patterns in children{\textquoteright}s play that are valuable for therapy and assessment. Following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan, we witnessed young survivors expressing post-trauma stress in block play. Motivated by the limitations in assessing this behavior using traditional methods, our paper describes the design rationales of AssessBlocks, an action-characterizing system using smartwatch embedded toy blocks. Utilizing a smartwatch{\textquoteright}s Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and capacitive screen, a monitor is able to receive, visualize and document sequential and quantitative play actions that were empirically selected from a preliminary block therapy study on children{\textquoteright}s post-disaster stress. We also propose our vision of a multi-dimensional behavioral assessment system using actions obtained by AssessBlocks.",
keywords = "Affective, Automated toy, Behavior assessments, Children, Earthquake, PTSD, Play therapy, Post-trauma stress, Tangible user interface, Toy blocks, Tsunami",
author = "Xiyue Wang and Miteki Ishikawa and Kazuki Takashima and Tomoaki Adachi and Ehud Sharlin and Patrick Finn and Yoshifumi Kitamura",
note = "Funding Information: This research was supported by JSPS KAKENHI under grant 15K04139. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).; 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2018 ; Conference date: 21-04-2018 Through 26-04-2018",
year = "2018",
month = apr,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1145/3170427.3188451",
language = "English",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
booktitle = "CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
}