The immediate goals of this team will be to: The team will gain hands-on experience in each of those areas and help to shape a new genre of interactive games and systems. The student team will play an integral role in the further design and development of various aspects of this system and approach including game development, augmented reality techniques, sound design, user experience design, interaction design, and computer vision. Further, similar play opportunities can be provided outdoors with vector-based laser projection technology as well as in the future with further improved head mounted display systems (the latter are currently impractical for co-located play scenarios similar to adaptive sports or sport activities in general due to their limited field of view and form factor). Taken as a whole, these two design features allow novel, inclusive co-located play and exercise opportunities that can be provided, for example, with projected augmented reality in the form of interactive floors using ceiling mounted video projectors. This system is different from existing spatial or projected augmented reality systems and exergame platforms as it levels the playing field in two ways: first, it projects a circle on the floor that visualizes each player’s peripersonal space boundaries with which they can manipulate a virtual target on the floor by body movement, limb extension or pressing a kick button to simulate limb extension second, it provides adaptable game mechanics using physics simulation to create, for example, a realistic ball game environment, which allows balancing players’ individual differences in response time or mobility by controlling game mechanics and customizing them for each player. The AiR Play project builds on prior work on an inclusive play and exercise system, iGYM, developed by a group of faculty and students from four different schools including the Stamps School of Art & Design, EESC, Kinesiology, and School of Information (see U-M and AP news stories). The key idea behind the AiR Play project is to remove these barriers to play by combining some of the elements and well-known benefits of adaptive sports (e.g., power chair soccer) and sports in general with the whole-body interaction modalities of exergames (e.g., Nintendo Wii or Xbox Kinect) to create an inclusive, projected augmented reality (AiR) game environment that is accessible and enjoyable for people of all abilities. Addressing these barriers is critical for reducing the risk of developing serious health problems and secondary health conditions, such as pain, fatigue, depression and obesity, as well as for increasing a sense of empowerment, normalcy, and acquisition of social capital. In traditional sport and entertainment settings, players with mobility disabilities typically do not have opportunities to engage in physical play with their peers without disabilities and vice versa due to physical and social barriers.

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