I'm obsessed with #HCI research that involves the Wii—yes, the 2006 Nintendo game console!
There are thousands of papers that used the Wii in novel, sometimes weird, research applications & I've been digging through a few of them so here's a thread!
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/search?q=Wii+A…
There are thousands of papers that used the Wii in novel, sometimes weird, research applications & I've been digging through a few of them so here's a thread!
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/search?q=Wii+A…
First up is (by my estimate) the most famous use of Wii hardware by an HCI researcher—@JohnnyChungLee's 3 Wii projects:
- a VR head tracking system
- turning any table into an interactive whiteboard
- a finger tracking system
This is all from 2007!
johnnylee.net/projects/wii/
- a VR head tracking system
- turning any table into an interactive whiteboard
- a finger tracking system
This is all from 2007!
johnnylee.net/projects/wii/
Johnny Lee (et al.) later published “Foldable Interactive Displays”(2008) allowing the Wii to track arbitrary surfaces using real-time projection mapping
e.g. The GIF below is just a big folded piece of paper!
YouTube link: youtube.com/watch?v=nhSR_6…
Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/14…
e.g. The GIF below is just a big folded piece of paper!
YouTube link: youtube.com/watch?v=nhSR_6…
Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/14…
Along the same lines of using the Wii for novel interactions is "Gesture Recognition with a Wii Controller" (2008). My favorite part of this paper is using a Hidden Markov Model to achieve fantastic filtering from the Wiimote's accelerometer!
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summar…
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"WiiPaint++" (2010) is exactly what it sounds like — using the Wii as kind of magical laser pointer to paint! The color selector is a delight — it's a quantized HSL cube! Spatial color UI for a spatial medium :)
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Combining two early-2000's era technologies is "WiiRobot" (2009)! The result is a Wii controller that can command an iRobot Create (basically a stripped down Roomba) to move in certain patterns! It's like a Logo turtle IRL :D
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summar…
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"Towards Affordable Gesture Based Interfaces" extends Lee's work to create a Wii with finger-based, mid-air gestures!
The authors note Wiisearchers "use MATLAB for camera calibration and resolving points in 3D space", bringing us to the last paper...
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summar…
The authors note Wiisearchers "use MATLAB for camera calibration and resolving points in 3D space", bringing us to the last paper...
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summar…
"WiiLab: Bringing Together the Nintendo Wiimote and MATLAB" (2009) was an attempt to introduce beginning engineering students to programming in a fun way by building a MATLAB library allowing the use of the Wiimote for input!
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summar…
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Honorary mention: @Lady_Ada_King's use of a pink Wiimote as a presentation controller is the kind of inventiveness I aspire to!!
