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Exertion Interfaces

Summary

Motivation

Definition

Sports over a Distance

Breakout for Two

Animation

Setup

Rules

Alternative Sports

Alternative Games

Transmitting Exertion

Benefits

Technical Details

Ball Detection

Study

Procedure

Non-exertion

Prisoner's Dilemma

Questionnaire

Graphs

Results

Future

Image Gallery

Video

Publications

Acknowledgements

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

Charles H. Duell Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

Publications

Papers

The idea of Exertion Interfaces has been made available to the public extensively. This papers section lists articles, posters and presentations that were presented at academic conferences.

Exertion Interfaces got the first academic recognition at the User Interface Software and Technology Symposium in Paris in 2002 (UIST '02). The published paper is available here:

Acrobat pdf exertioninterfaces_uist.pdf (PDF, 2 pages, 300 KB)

At the same conference, a poster was shown. Read this if you want the fastest overview. It is available in three different resolutions:

Acrobat pdf exertioninterfaces_poster_screen.pdf (PDF, 700 KB, for onscreen viewing)
Acrobat pdf exertioninterfaces_poster_print.pdf (PDF, 6 MB, for printing)
Acrobat pdf exertioninterfaces_poster_press.pdf (PDF, 13 MB, for high-quality, poster-size printing)

A more in-depth paper was shown at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Florida in 2003, USA (CHI '03).

Acrobat pdf exertioninterfaces_chi.pdf (PDF, 8 pages, 700 KB)

The Powerpoint presentation held at this conference requires Powerpoint XP (2002) for the animation. The video in this distribution is not included and shoult be downloaded separately.

Powerpoint exertioninterfaces_presentation.zip (ZIP, 30 slides, 4 MB)

Thesis

Exertion Interfaces evolved out of a thesis in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Media Lab, and was carried out at Media Lab Europe, MIT Media Lab's European Research Partner.

Exertion Interfaces led to a thesis in Media, Arts, and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA. It got rewarded an A+. Thesis supervisors were Rosalind W. Picard, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab, and Stefan Agamanolis, Principal Research Scientist, Media Lab Europe. Thesis reader was Ted Selker, Associate Professor MIT Media Lab.

The thesis (158 pages) is available in three different resolutions:

Acrobat pdf thesis_florian_mueller_screen.pdf (PDF, 7 MB, for onscreen viewing)
Acrobat pdf thesis_florian_mueller_ebook.pdf (PDF, 9 MB, e-book format for PDAs)
Acrobat pdf thesis_florian_mueller_print.pdf (PDF, 21 MB, for printing)