Board Game Pecha Kucha: Blokus 3D + Bendominoes Jr. Yan-Ling Chen Andrew Harbor Dustin Harris Chih-Pin Hsiao Nathan Weitzner
Blokus 3D Game Dynamics Turn-based strategy game Players lay blocks to match patterns Game ends when all blocks are placed Score based on top-down view
Blokus 3D SWOT Analysis Strengths: Opportunity for improving strategy over time Many different outcomes possible Weaknesses: Instructions are somewhat ambiguous Slow pace means players may lose interest Opportunities: Design more patterns each pattern makes players develop new strategies
Bendominoes Jr. Game Dynamics Turn-based strategy game Players match their tiles to tiles on the board The first person to run out of tiles wins Reliant on luck rather than strategy
Bendominoes Jr. SWOT Analysis Strengths: Simple instructions allow players of all ages to participate Ambiguity in instructions can teach kids creative problem solving Weaknesses: Does not allow for sophisticated strategies for advanced players Opportunities: Should be more complicated if you want to appeal to older players
Blokus -> Musical Applications Play like a CD remix the music Colors: Genres Shapes: Songs in the genre
Bendomino -> Musical Applications Compose! Shapes: different pieces of melody/ beats
Gobblet -> Musical Applications Layers of Effects! Pitch shift- high / low Reverb- with / without Volume- loud / soft Tempo- fast / slow
Musical Applications Advantage Play game with cool music Compose in an easy way Experiment with all effects Discover new aspect of music
Healthcare Related Applications Target Groups: Older Adults Kids with developing problems People with Physical Disabilities Enhancing Users': Visual Perception Spatial Cognition Short term/long term Memory Motor Processing Arm, hands, and fingers movement
Bendomino for Healthcare Group: Older Adults with Dementia Enhancing: Short term and long term memory Form: Tangible User Interfaces LED displays on each tile Sensors to detect the neighbor bendominos (including NFC, accelerometer, and touch sensor on the display)
Bendomino for Healthcare How: 1. Embedded displays on bendominos 2. Displaying different patterns or images 3. Disappearing or Showing partial images/patterns 4. Display the images/video of their family members on the bendominos on the desktop, but names or relationships on the bendominos they are currently holding.
Blokus 3D for Healthcare Group: Older adults with Dementia, Strokes Enhancing: Spatial Cognition, Visual Perception, Motor Processing Forms: 1. Video Games Training the ability for converting 2D images to 3D Enhancing Spatial Cognition 2. Lego like construction kits (Tangible User Interfaces) minor stroke rehab Enhancing Spatial Cognition for minor Alzheimer
Blokus 3D for Healthcare How: Legal Like Construction Kits 1. Construction Kits with sensing nodes will know which blocks connect to itself. 2. Embedded LED lights can give the hints to the users: Including which place is available, or the wrong placement On Screen Applications 1. Convert the game to interactive 3D Video games on (multitouch) displays 2. Drag and Drop, Rotate the blocks by using touch gestures
Education Related Applications Target Groups: Young Children Individuals with Developmental Disorders Second Language Learners Enhancing Users': Visual Perception Spatial Cognition Short term/long term Memory Motor Processing Arm, hands, and fingers movement
Bendomino for Education Group: Second Language Learners Enhancing: Vocabulary Size and Recall Speed Form: LED displays on each bendomino Sensors to detect the neighbor bendominos Preset and Customizable Word Sets
Bendomino for Education How: LED display on tiles as in healthcare application Display shows images and words - different matching modes Use preset vocabulary/images or upload your own
Where to from here? 1. Extension 2. Abstraction 3. Application 1. Extension - Blokus 2D, Blokus 3D...
Blokus 4D!
Abstraction Gobblet - Nesting objects... Animal Human Student GT Student
Application - Categorization / Organization - Distributed thinking / computing -Captcha, Foldit