From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Veli-Pekka Raty [veli-pekka.raty@vtt.fi] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:39 AM To: Joseph LaViola; 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu Subject: Re: input and output hardware Hi! Have a look at the floor sensor input system and an exercise cycle as a body controlled user interface developed here at the VTT Information Technology! Lumetila - Virtual Space The sensored floor is one result of the "Lumetila - Virtual Space" project where we look at new types of bodily and spatial user interfaces and their applications in location based entertainment. See http://www.vtt.fi/tte/projects/lumetila/ There is a brief decription of the sensored floor in the paper: Leikas, Jaana, Väätänen, Antti & Räty, Veli-Pekka. 2000. Virtual space computer games with a floor sensor control : human centred approach in the design process. Workshop on Haptic Human-Computer Interaction. 31 August-1 September 2000. Glasgow: University of Glasgow. The paper discribes a one person game - a VR version of the traditional Pong - and its design process. We have submitted a more thorough paper on the input system to the Siggraph 2001. With the sensored floor we can detect where people move on the floor. Also we can differentiate how they move - if they are still, walking, jumping... Currently we have been developing a team game using the sensored floor. The team is steering a diving bell under water and rescuing a dolphin from a shipwreck... We will be submitting more papers on the team game and the user interface. Virku - Virtual Fitness Center Virtual Fitness Center research project investigates how an exercise cycle can be used as a body controlled user interface in an Internet based fitness service. One goal of the project is to develop a new kind of computer game, which reacts to the physiological stress and allows a person to practise in a group or by himself. See http://www.vtt.fi/tte/research/tte5/tte51/virkuwww_eng.htm Cheers, Veli-Pekka At 23:22 13.2.2001 -0500, Joseph LaViola wrote: Hi there. I am going to be giving a course with Doug Bowman, Ivan Poupyrev, and Mark Mine at Siggraph 2001. I am going to be reviewing I/O hardware for 3D user interfaces. I wanted to get a feel for what people on this list are using in their work. Are any of you using any new or interesting input or output devices? Do you know of anyone who has built any new input and/or output devices? If so, send me a quick note with any information (papers, URLs, etc..). Thanks, Joe -- Joseph J LaViola Jr. Brown University, Dept. of Computer Science, Box 1910, Providence, RI 02912 Phone: 401-863-7662 Fax: 401-863-7657 URL: www.cs.brown.edu/people/jjl Veli-Pekka Räty PO Box 1206 Dr of Arts (Art and Design), MSc (Tech.) 33101 Tampere, Finland Senior Research Scientist VTT Information Technology Tel. +358 3 316 3340 Human Interaction Technologies Mobile +358 40 575 4955 VTT Information Technology http://www.vtt.fi/tte/indexe.htm Home page http://www.vtt.fi/tte/staff/vpr/ Current project http://www.vtt.fi/tte/projects/lumetila/