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Queens University (CAN) Human Media Lab Takes on Board Games
23 Jan
Posted by Yehuda Berlinger as Electronic Games, Modern Board Games
Adding to the list of attempts to augment board games with electronics (as well as others) is the Human Media Lab at Queens University of Ontario.
Read their academic paper [PDF] and press release, and watch the blinking lights in the video. They use Settlers of Catan hexes as tracking objects for an overhead projector.
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