FYP2009 A Mixed Reality User Interface For Murder Mystery Games

Project Member: Liu Bing Yang

Idea:

This project presents a implementation of a mixed reality user interface in 3D game using a simple real-time face tracker with smile detection. A quantitative analysis conducted to evaluate the perfomance of playing first-person-shooting (FPS) games using the face tracker, in comparison wiht playing using the conventional mouse and keyboard. A qualitative analysis is carried out to analyse how user experience has been changed when a multiplayer game is intergrated with the real-time face tracking feature.

FYP2009 Touching Media in the mixture of Virtual Reality and Physical Reality

Project Member: Xie Du

Idea:

Mixed Reality (augmented reality) has popped up to be very active in recent research. In traditional mixed reality, markers are always physically embodied, thus hard to change their physical states in the real time (e.g. size of markers). This project explores the solution of using large-scale multitouch surface to replace the physical marker and implements a simulation application for indoor design. User can create virtual objects (e.g. furniture) and modify their property such as size and orientation on a multitouch surface and see the real time 3D simulation on another screen. Also, multiple designers are supported to work collaboratively on the surface. With the flexible virtual objects and shared workplace, I believe it will bring efficiency and fun to users.

FYP2009 MXRToolkit for Mobile Phones

Project Member: Benjamin Ang

Idea:

This project involves the porting of MXRToolkit from the desktop platform to the mobile platform. Targeted platform is Windows Mobile 5 due to the similarities in the APIs used. Project direction is to fully port all features of MXRToolkit to the mobile platform and develop a sample application to showcase the capabilities of the ported toolki

FYP2009 Musical Computing on Multi-touch Table-top

Project Member: Ong JunJie

Idea:

The introduction of the multi-touch music tabletop has created another dimension in musical computing where users are able to compose and play music by interacting with the table interface through sense of touch, or through manipulation of tangible objects such as fiducial markers on the tabletop. However, playing and composing music without any music background is tedious.

This project aims to explore any creative and interactive alternatives to compose or play music in an intuitive manner on the multi-touch table, which is suitable for musicians and also beginners with no music background. It also tries to express music and motion in a graphical representation rather than the traditional Common Music Notation which is commonly used in writing music.