Mitja Kostomaj - projects >>Ambient Interactive Storybook

Ambient interactive storybook (AIS) Spinning Top is a set of full body interactive games that use a webcam as the motion sensor, a large visual display, and a PC using low level computer vision algorithms, such as detecting mass centre and motion detection.

The characters are favourite children's toys, adults and children. The story is about Stella & Tom, who live in a Big City, in a Big House, in a flat where they can't run and jump. Their neighbour, Mr Smith, is constantly complaining. Spinning Top appears and takes Stella and Tom to "Spinning World", where children can be children and are free to jump, crawl, dance, and run as much as they want … but on the way to "Spinning Island" something happens…

AIS includes following full body interactive games where children play, interact, explore, learning and have fun through movement:

---- Racing the City ---- Symmetry game ---- Don't wake up Mr. Smith
---- HulaHoop game ---- Flying the cloud ---- Spinning River
---- Racing game ---- Deep Dark Woods ---- Wisdom Tree ---- Fallen stars

Full body interactive games have been tested in schools, homes and public spaces. Children usually need one game to learn how to play. To experience AIS a user needs:
• a PC (or a MAC),
• a web cam,
• a TV display or a projector and
• space.

AIS was exhibited in January 2008 at Museum of Recent History, Celje, Slovenia, as a part of an experiment which is well documented in several papers ... Read more in papers section >>>