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Balance Ball Interface

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A user-interface device for exercise and entertainment. As users move while sitting on the balance ball, the system captures their motion and behaviour. See related Sketch

Enhanced Life
This easy-to-use, inexpensive interface system liberates people from sedentary, unhealthy computer work. It is a surprising new concept that changes our assumptions about chairs and interfaces, and promotes a new reality.

Goal
To develop a game-interface device that acquires complex movements of a human body in a sitting posture.

Innovations
This interface technology converts information from an acceleration sensor and a pressure sensor into posture information. Movements of the upper body and the waist are calculated from these inputs and converted into whole-body movements.

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Masasuke Yasumoto
Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts