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evaluation
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Making The Game – Teil 17: Evaluation und Einsatz der Anwendung

The aim of this work has been to develop an edutainment application for natural user interfaces that can be used in the classroom and at home. They should encourage children and young people on a funy way to test their newly acquired knowledge. Care was taken that the game motivates learners by appealing animations, cut scenes and mini-games.   Since it is important in the learning process that the learner feels comfortable, the actual knowledge query was packed in a trivia game. Thus, the player does not notice that he just answered questions that could be used ​​just as well in an exam.   General Due to time constraints, unfortunately, […]

minigames
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Making The Game – Teil 16: Vorstellung der Mini-Spiele

Mini-games within the application help to maintain a large varriety in the entertainement process. They challenge the player in other fields than answering questions. Through the various systems on which the application will be able to run, every mini-game itself determines what requirements it has to be playable on the current system Before the individual mini-games are developed, these were roughly designed in the storyboard phase.   Catch All and Catch Selected The games “Catch All” and “Catch Selected” are two mini games that do not work with touch input, but are controlled by the motion detection using a webcam. Both games are consistent with the concepts of “moving school” […]

konzept
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Making The Game – Teil 10: Spiele-Konzeption

Many different factors must be applied in the development of a multimedia, natural learning application. So I decided not to use a typical software-development model. Instead i used the agile process model in the development.   This approach was chosen because compared to the waterfall model, where at the beginning of the development all specifications must be set, it is much more dynamic to changing requirements and add new ideas can during the development process. In addition, the costs and project progress at the beginning of the development is difficult to predict, so the use of an agile and iterative approach that adapts to the current situation has many benefits. […]

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Bewegungserkennung via Webcam

As you might already know from my “Making The Game” category I’m currently writing my Master’s thesis on natural user interfaces (NUI). This research area also includes the computer control via body movements and gestures, as they are already on the EyeToy or the Kinect.   Besides the mere paperwork I also develop a NUI program that is easy to operate without input devices like mouse and keyboard. So i played a little with the webcam framework in flash and programmed a small motion detection game I don’t want to hide from you.   The aim of the game to catch the falling diamonds with the hand in front of […]

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Making The Game – Teil 4: Alternative NUI Eingabemöglichkeiten ( Bewegungssteuerung und Beschleunigunssensoren )

So far I’ve only talked about multi-touch enabled computers as representative devices with NUI, but not just smartphones and tablet computers belong to this category.   Besides the possibility of using the touch screen there are approaches to the control a computer via body movements. For example the Kinect for Xbox, which can detect body movements and gestures using the integrated camera, belongs to this category of input devices. To recognize the player the Kinect uses besides a color camera a depth sensor camera, sus the person can act in three dimensions. It is also possible to recognize the movements of a person using a normal camera . This basic […]