MotionInput.

This Week

Team 26 added a functional version of the gesture recorder and detector into MotionInput, which will provide the starting point for one of our main deliverables at the end of the project. Abid had recorded a special move gesture for Street Fighter V.

On Tuesday, we extensively tested the functionality of the gesture with the purpose of seeing if the gesture worked with different people of different body types. After some tweaking on thresholds sensitivities, we were able to get the detection fairly accurate. 

We also spent some time figuring out how to chain key presses together to get desired actions in game, which we would link many of the gestures to. Professor Phillipa Chick and professor Costas Stylianou from Intel were here to see much of what we had to show. We managed to get them to take part and do the gestures themselves in game to showcase how anyone can do the gestures and be detected correctly. They were impressed with the software’s capabilities and we have been led to believe that this will  open up the possibility of working with the NHS, Intel and the BBC if we were to continue our work and complete it for the intended purpose.  

We then evaluated how we were going to tackle doing the portfolio which we would start very soon. We also decided on a list of games to showcase the possibilities of the gestures. Abid would then continue throughout the week to record mini demonstrations for gestures in these games.