ROLE OF THE BODY

BY CIAN, MATT, FELISTER AND DOM

Role of the body - Games • First interactive electronic game developed by Thomas Tolivan Goldsmith Jr in 1947 • “Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device” • Resembled the world war radar display. • Preceded the era of computer graphics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode_ray_tube_amusement_device

Why Involve the body in Games? • Engaging • Natural body movement • Immersive • Feedback • Motivating • Goal oriented • Fun

Christian Schönauer, Thomas Pintaric Hannes and Kaufmann Interactive Media Systems Group Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems Vienna University of Technology

Understanding the role of body movement in player engagement • Movement Taxonomy in computer games • Hard-fun and Easy-fun • Body movement and the social factor

Bianchi-berthouze, N., Understanding the role of body movement in player engagement. University College of London

Bianchi-berthouze, N., Understanding the role of body movement in player engagement. University College of London

Refined movement-based engagement model:

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Interaction Technologies for People with Disabilities

Haptic Technology Tongue Drive Eye Control BCI - Brain Computer Interface

Brainport

A device that translates images from a camera, sending it to an electrode array that sits on the persons tongue.

First developed to assist stroke victims in regaining balance

Mobile Lorm Glove

Lorm is a hand-touch alphabet system developed in the 19th Century by Hieronymus Lorm.

Mobile Lorm Glove

Tongue Drive

Eye Control

Tobii PCEye - €3,500 Headset developed by Dr Aldo Faisal - under €25

Brain Computer Interface (BCI)

Invasive or Partially

invasive BCI Non-Invasive BCI

Epoc Neuroheadset - $300 Necomimi - $70

FUTURE TECHNOLOGY

•  BIO PRINTER 1.  Medical field 2.  Printing of body organs 3.  http://explainingthefuture.com/bioprinting.html

•  WEARABLE & TANGIBLE INTERACTION 1.  The I-garment 2.  Wearable exoskeleton 3.  http://inventorspot.com/articles/

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FUTURE TECHNOLOGY

•  UBIQUITOUS & EMBEDDED INTERFACES 1.  Kinect and gaming 2.  Ubiquitous computing 3.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZkHpNnXLB0

•  NANOSCIENCE TECHNOLOGY 1.  All areas 2.  Nanoscience 3.  http://www.wifinotes.com/nanotechnology/what-is-

nanoscience.html

BIO PRINTER

•  What is a bio printer? ü Bio printer construct living tissue using living cells

•  How does it work?

ü It print cells from bio print head that moves in all directions ü It also output dissolvable gel to protect organ during

printing

BIO PRINTER

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY

• The I-Garment ü It is a smart full body garment for firefighters ü Designed with the help of space technology

• What is it for? ü This garment provides information to team leader and

coordination center about. o  The health status of firefighters

o  position of firefighters

• History? ü The garment was developed as part of the European Space

agency telecom programme

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING

•  What is ubiquitous computing? ü 3rd wave of computing

o  With computers anywhere any time ü 1st wave

o  1980s, personal computers ü 2nd wave

o  1990s, network and communications

•  Making ubiquitous computing available ü We already have computers in our phones, televisions, stereos,

dishwashers, and watches. (pebble watch)

•  The perfect vision (problems now) ü focusing on the technical capabilities

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING

Kinect Hand Detection uses the kinect sensor from microsoft, and the recently released libfreenect driver for interfacing with kinect in linux. The graphical interface

and the hand detection software were written at MIT to interface with the open source robotics package developed by wilow garage.(wilowgarage.com)

Uploaded dec2010

Kinect Hack: Minority Report(2002) User Interface Duplicated!

NANOTECHNOLOGY

•  What is Nano science / nanotechnology? ü 1 nanometer = 1 billionth of a meter ü Science of interacting with atoms or molecules to modify

the way they behave.

•  Uses ü Detecting cancerous bacteria at early stages ü Used in food processing

•  The age of Nano ü A world that has always been around but we are just

starting to explore

NANOTECHNOLOGY

QUESTIONS ??

Activity - 1 • Choose a random envelope from both colours. • Create a concept for the selected theme • Explain the design and how it works • Discuss it’s uses

Activity - 2 “USE YOUR HEAD” • To create a piece of Art Work • Upload it to your blog or student share