Caption: Engineering Open House Guide - 2009
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Unlocking Potential 29 How does it work? How much weight does it hold? How do you steer? These are all questions SIGBio We have created a game system we’re answering with the conthat uses an eye-tracking cam- struction of our very own hoverera and surface EMG instead of craft. Location: 1214 a typical controller. We applied this to the classic game Whack- This exhibit is suitable for: All A-Mole, using the eye-tracking to specify the target and muscle IClicker Expansion Tech Team - Women in Comcontraction to dictate the hit. puter Science Location: Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: Gen- TechTeam has expanded the uses of the iClicker. You should eral Public come check it out and see the new features! Graffiti Ever walk into a restaurant, cafe, Location: Center Atrium (near stairs) or lecture hall and wondered what people were saying about This exhibit is suitable for: Middle School, High School, College it? Come see Graffiti, which Eyetracking Whack-AMole fight back against the undead menace in this 3D game! Gamebuilders and SIGGRAPH jointly present a new way to visualize three-dimensional games in this unique project. Location: Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: College Instant Messaging Chat Bot turns everything in the physical world into a virtual graffiti wall that you can write comments on! Location: Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: College, General Public Illini Entrepreneurship Network The Illini Entrepreneurship Network (IEN) aims to foster Greening the Desktop entrepreneurship in students at SIGSAC and SIGNet the University of Illinois through Thin clients are small, efficient presentations, workshops, comdevices that provide a centrally petitions, and entrepreneurial managed system to meet the ventures. With the addition of the computing needs of the averStudent Startup Incubator, IEN age person. We will have a few helps students with an entreon display to show everyone the preneurial idea make that idea potential benefits of using these come to life. We are showcasing devices in place of power-hungry some of the student startups of desktop computers. our members. Location: Atrium Location: Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: ColThis exhibit is suitable for: High lege, General Public School, College, General Public Illini Entrepreneurship Network: Student Startups SIGART Make a new friend! Our instant messaging chat bot wants to meet you. Its amusing demeanor will surely put a smile on your face, and you’ll see it learning and improving its vocabulary as you converse with it. Who knew that testing the limits of modern natural language processing could be so much fun? Location: Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: All Lego Logic Gates SIGDave Lego logic gates are an entertaining and educational way to recreate our most basic digital building blocks. AND, NOT, OR, XOR, NOR, and NAND all combine to form a half-adder, a full-adder, and potentially a full blown ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit). Location: Atrium This exhibit is suitable for: College Hovercraft SIGDave What is an air-cushion-vehicle? In Darkness LUG to the Rescue Gamebuilders and SIGGRAPH Navigate the gathering blackness using all your senses and Linux Users Group LUG demonstrates their preconfigured Linux environment intended for system repair and
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