Petimo

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"Petimo" is an interactive robotic toy designed to protect children from potential risks in social networks and the virtual world and helps them to make a safely connected social networking environment. It adds a new physical dimension to social computing through physically touching the robots. This new dimension of authentication provides extra safety in making friends and this process updates a centralized database. The physical touch of robots will help prevent malevolent adult strangers being added as friends. 



Colleagues: Adrian David Cheok, Newton Fernando, Nimesha Ranasinghe, Roshan Peiris, Dilrukshi Abeyrathna, Charith Fernando