Two Rice University professors, Marcia O’Malley and Michael Byrne have started a research project using the Wii Remote. This three year research project is funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) in which the professors will measure motions in different activities. They will receive a constant updated stream of data as the tasks are repeated leading to learning. Right now the first activities that they are measuring are the Wii games. Byrne says, some games have good learning properties that can be measured while with some games people don’t get along. By using more Wiimotes and more accelerometers, there can be gathered a more detailed information on motion than just by using a single device.

The prime concern of this whole data-collection exercise is to create robotic systems to teach physical task by providing direct feedback to the body and to mainly push you in the way you need to move.

 


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