I don't if giving angry teenagers this kind of virtual dentist simulator would either interest ot calm them down but it seems that medecine-related simulators are a very thriving domain for VR/tangible computing specialist (as attested by the wonderful bovine palpation simulator). Look at this nice...
BattleBoard 3D: an augmented reality game with LEGO
BattleBoard 3D (BB3D) is a simple augmented reality game prototype conducted by Sune Kristense, Bjørn W. Nielsen, Troels Lange at interactivespaces The original source of inspiration for the BB3D project was a sequence in the movie Star Wars Episode IV where two characters are playing a game of che...
Home-made slot machines
The Under the Pier Show presents very nice experience of crazy slot machines and simulator amazingly modified. The folk shows his collection of home-made slot machines and simulator, on Soutwhold Pierre in Suffolk (UK). Nice hacks! My favorite is the Microbreak (even though the gene forecaster or t...
phd advisor meeting
After watching 2 videos of CatchBob replay: - Check where people wrote (index of position) - mutual modeling act: "I saw that you were going in that direction, then I did not communicate that much": the person assume that his partner writes where he is. - players evaluates the plausibility of infor...
Turning CatchBob! into a Sheep-Dog Trial
Well, CatchBob! task could be a bit more complex if add new dimensions like in the sheepdog trial: Sheepdog trial (or simply dog trial) is a competitive dog sport in which herding dog breeds move sheep around a field, fences, gates, or enclosures as directed by their handlers. Such events are parti...
PELOTE: Helping human and robot firefighters work as a team
PELOTE is an interesting EU research project "focused on how human firefighters and their robot counterparts would make use of a personal navigation and localisation system which could guide their movements, at the same time informing the external command centre of the exact location of each team m...
Finally a breath-based joystick!
I finally managed to find a breath-base joystick:Evreinov G., Evreinova T. "Breath-Joystick" – Graphical Manipulator for Physically Disabled Users. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP2000, July 17-21, 2000, Karlsruhe, Germany, pp. ...
Nouse: Use your nose as a joystick or mouse
"Nouseâ use your nose as a joystick or mouse is an interesting project about alternative interaction carried out by D.O. Gorodnichy , S. Malik , G. Roth at the Computational Video Group, IIT, National Research Council, Ottawa. Nouse stands for âUse your nose as a mouseâ and is the name of th...
CatchBob! strategy analysis
In our location-based game CatchBob!, there seems to be 3 different strategies, when participants spread over the campus: the first one is the most common, the last one is 2 exceptions: Then there are 2 possibilities with regard to how the strategy evolves: As I said yesterday, players without ...
Different kinds of spatial exploration strategies
A good reference that summarizes the different kinds of spatial exploration strategies: Kallai, J., Makany, T., Karadi, K., & Jacobs, W. J. (2004). Spatial orientation strategies in Morris-type virtual water task for humans Behavioural Brain Research.Some excerpts I found relevant for my purpose: T...