[games_access] eyebrow control at GGJ

Richard David Gordon Hayden rdghayden at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 03:58:05 EDT 2014


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On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Thomas Westin <thomas at westin.nu> wrote:

> Great, the webcam as well as the lever switches approach makes it cheap
> too, compared to similar stuff made with a brain-computer interface.
>
> (I made a BCI experiment with eyebrows together with Michael McIntosh in
> 2005, using the Cyberlink to recreate the
> Yoda-teaches-Luke-levitate-the-XWing in a 3D scene. Worked quite OK).
>
> Best regards
> Thomas
>
> 28Apr 2014 kl. 09:19 skrev Ian Hamilton <i_h at hotmail.com>:
>
> A bit late with this, but seeing SpecialEffect's eyebrow control article (
> http://www.specialeffect.org.uk/specialeffect-news/browbeating) reminded
> me, the accessibility winner at Melbourne's goal game jam from January this
> year was eyebrow controlled rhythm/dance game. Same principle as eyebrow
> switches, but using post it notes and a webcam:
>
>
>
> http://globalgamejam.org/2014/games/brow-brow-party-walrus-exciting-eyebrow-dancing-experience
>
>
> Not everyone had the eyebrow dexterity to be able to play well but
> everyone had bucketloads of fun trying, they had a constant crowd of
> grinning people playing and watching.
>
>
> Eyebrows aside, the principle would obviously work with any other two
> switch / two input setup, a nice example of how much fun can be had with
> greatly reduced controls. Reminds me a lot of Steve Spohn's "I would" story
> from Includification, about Rock Band.
>
> ------------------------------
> From: gramenos at ics.forth.gr
> To: games_access at igda.org
> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:13:48 +0300
> Subject: [games_access] Anyone going to CHI?
>
> Hello all,
>
>
> Is anyone going to CHI next week?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Dimitris
>
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