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The iBird
is a physically engaging and responsive bird flight simulation game. iBird
allows players to fly to great heights with the wind in their faces. One
literally flap outstretched arms to fly, while seeing an animated bird in
flight on a projection screen, mimicking the flapping arms. Player score game
points by successfully navigating an aerial obstacle course, while fans blow
air at you from different directions to help you feel your speed and direction
of flight. iBird was developed as part of our
SPIRAL project (Science, Playful Interface Technology, and
Learning), to create kid-friendly and physically engaging science games and
simulations that combine multiple low-cost game-controllers and custom built input and
output devices.
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The UnMousePad is a paper thin,
flexible multi-touch device about size of a mouse pad. The UnMousePad
not only continuously detects a multitude of touches, it also senses varying
levels of pressure at a resolution high enough to distinguish multiple fingertips
and even the tip of a pen or pencil. Because of its form-factor, it can be
used for simple mouse input, for multi-touch gestures, in interactive
applications such as games and finger-painting programs.
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