We do note that past projects have had a similar idea, but our team wanted to build on this idea with our own spin, and apply this technology specifically to a game of chess. However, much like in futuristic movies like the Minority Report, the idea of being able to control mouse movement with in-air hand motion is something that is not so common in current consumer technology. For example, touchscreens have recently become popular because it completely eliminates the need for computer mouse. As technology advances, the computer mouse is becoming less and less standard. As such, we came upon the idea to make a computer chess game that more closely simulates a physical chess game and further blur the distinction between the real and the virtual.Īs such, our vision was to eliminate the computer mouse and replace it with in-air hand motion. Playing chess with a simple computer mouse can simply be boring, and does not have the same feel as playing a game with a real, physical chess set.
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Our team explored various ideas about how to revolutionize a game of computer chess. High Level Design top Rationale and Source of Our Project Idea The goal of our project was to simulate the physical motions involved in playing chess without the need for a physical chess set. Since the glove also has contact sensors in the form of copper strips on both the thumb and pointer finger, pressing these two fingers together simulates picking up or dropping a piece at the location of the cursor. As such, when a player tilts his hand in a certain direction, the cursor on the computer screen moves accordingly. The chess board graphical user interface is generated using MATLAB, which receives information from the player’s gloves through a serial connection with the microcontroller, and updates the game appropriately. Each player wears a glove (there are two gloves for two players) and uses hand-motions to play a chess application. "A glove embedded with accelerometers to play a hand motion-controlled chess game"įor our ECE 4760 final project, our team designed and built a system with the ability to play the game of chess using embedded gloves.