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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

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.

Western Union internal memo, 1876

Technical Details

The Breakout for Two system consists of three components: the video-conference between the players, the detection engine to identify the impact of the ball, and the networking software. The impact data of where, when and how hard the ball hit the wall is transmitted over TCP/IP, and, along with the UDP video-conferencing information, synchronized with the other end.

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