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Cuddly: Enchant Your Soft Objects with a Mobile Phone

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Advances in Computer Entertainment (ACE 2013)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNISA,volume 8253))

Abstract

Cuddly is a mobile phone application that will enchant soft objects to enhance human’s interaction with the objects. Cuddly utilizes the mobile phone’s camera and flash light (LED) to detect the surrounding brightness value captured by the camera. When one integrate Cuddly with a soft object and compresses the object, the brightness level captured by the camera will decrease. Utilizing the measurement change in brightness values, we can implement diverse entertainment applications using the different functions a mobile phone is embedded with, such as animation, sound, Bluetooth communication etc. For example, we created a boxing game by connecting two devices through Bluetooth; with one device inserted into a soft object and the other acting as a screen.

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  1. Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University, 4-1-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, 223-8526, Japan

    Suzanne Low, Yuta Sugiura, Kevin Fan & Masahiko Inami

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  1. Human Media Interaction/Creative Technology, University of Twente, Drienerlolaan 5, 7522 NB, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Dennis Reidsma

  2. School of Science and Technology, Department of Human System Interaction, Kwansei Gakuin University, Gakuen Sanda 2-1, 669-1337, Sanda, Japan

    Haruhiro Katayose

  3. Human Media Interaction, University of Twente, Drienerlolaan 5, 7522 NB, Enschede, The Netherlands

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Low, S., Sugiura, Y., Fan, K., Inami, M. (2013). Cuddly: Enchant Your Soft Objects with a Mobile Phone. In: Reidsma, D., Katayose, H., Nijholt, A. (eds) Advances in Computer Entertainment. ACE 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8253. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03161-3_10

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