Movement Awareness for Ubiquitous Game Control

  • Authors:
  • Robert Headon;Rupert Curwen

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratory for Communications Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK;Ubiquitous Systems Limited, Cambridge, UK

  • Venue:
  • Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper describes a sensing system for recognising and characterising human movements and its application to ubiquitous gaming. In particular this paper considers the control of computer games through players interacting with the physical environment around them in a natural and appropriate manner. This pushes the interface into the environment, and pulls ubiquitous computing into the game. This is achieved using a sentient computing system. Such a system senses the location, motions, actions and even physiological responses of users. This sensory data can be used to interface and control a game. A good example is 3D first-person games and we demonstrate a system in which actions in the game are mapped to similar actions in the real world.