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Exertion Interfaces

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Sports over a Distance

Breakout for Two

Animation

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Ball Detection

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Non-exertion

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Acknowledgements

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Plato (427-347 BC)

Acknowledgements

About to win the game!Breakout for Two was a project realized by Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, Stefan Agamanolis, Human Connectedness Group, Media Lab Europe.

Thanks to the following people for their support:

Tom Walter (Uebermedia)

Roz Picard (MIT Media Lab)

Ted Selker (MIT Media Lab)

Cian Cullinan (Media Lab Europe)

Media Lab Europe, the Human Connectedness Group and MIT Media Lab

and everybody else who supported this, especially the many volunteers who kicked a ball against a wall for hours!.

Thanks a lot to Rebekka Linder for the design support of this site.

This project was supported by Media Lab Europe and the MIT Media Lab and lead to a thesis by Florian 'Floyd' Mueller in Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab. The project was undertaken in the Human Connectedness group at Media Lab Europe.