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May 13, 2020 9 tweets 8 min read
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… CiteSeer search results sho...Photo of the Wii 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/