iiBOARD Development of a Low-Cost Interactive Whiteboard using the Wiimote Controller

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2009

Autores

silva, m (Autor) Outra; reis, lp (Autor) FEUP; sousa, a (Autor) FEUP; faria, bm (Autor) Outra; costa, ap (Autor) Outra

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: GRAPP 2009: PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

Páginas: 337-344

4th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications4th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications

Lisbon, PORTUGALLisbon, PORTUGAL, FEB 05-08, 2009FEB 05-08, 2009

Indexação

ISI Proceedings

ISI Web of Knowledge - 1 Citação

Scopus - 4 Citações

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências exactas e naturais > Ciências da computação e da informação

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-003-Q71

Abstract (EN): Interactive whiteboards are gaining importance in our society, both at a business level and, especially, at an educational level. However, the products offered by the major manufacturers have a major barrier to their acquisition: very high prices. There is an urgent need to use new technologies in order to provide solutions that present the same performance levels than typical interactive whiteboards, but with a significantly reduced cost. Throughout this paper the steps taken for the development of an innovative low-cost interactive whiteboard are described. The proposed system is based on the Wii Remote command of the Nintendo Wii video-game console. This command, although very inexpensive has an infrared camera, and supports Bluetooth communication. The system control is based on a wireless device, based on infrared emitters, which supports most of the mouse events. A complete whiteboard application was also developed using Borland Delphi for Windows. This application may be used with either one or two Wiimotes and has a very simple and efficient calibration method. The application also includes viewing capabilities of some of the Wiimote characteristics, as well as a flexible Notebook to increase its range of possible uses. The results obtained through a survey conducted to a small set of whiteboard users were very positive indicators about the acceptance of the inexpensive solution proposed.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 8