The CHI conference is the leading international forum for human-computer interaction. I submitted a proposal to develop and run some projects for CHIkids, the kids section.

This proposal was accepted and I designed, built and ran three projects. The projects were (1) JASPA (a Jump and Spell Preschool Agent), (2) Space Bunny (kid oriented pseudo VR to make a comic book) and (3) Alien Scenes (making flick books by remote control of a video camera). As well the developing the basic concepts, I wrote custom software (in Director) and designed, built and tested custom hardware all on a shoestring budget.

Click here for a site mediating these projects with images and video of the kids.

The project required designing and building pressure pads. Click here for a page describing to do this and with some tips on other possible avenues of research for homebrew pads.