Feet Operated Game Controller for Upper-limb Amputees
Published: 2016-06-29 – Updated: 2018-05-01
Author: Johns Hopkins University | Contact: jhu.edu
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Additional References: Accessible Games and Gaming Publications
Synopsis: Novel controller allows video gamer who lacks hands to compete with his feet – device for upper-limb amputees earns honors for biomedical engineering grad students.
It’s tough to play video games when you have no fingers to push buttons on the controller.
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It’s tough to play video games when you have no fingers to push buttons on the controller.
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Just ask Gyorgy (George) Levay, an avid gamer who lost both hands to a meningitis infection five years ago. But Levay and two fellow Johns Hopkins grad students have devised a clever way get him, and others with similar disabilities, back in the game.
Their solution – a sandal-like controller that allows a player to control the on-screen action with his or her feet – recently won the $7,500 grand prize in the 2016 Intel-Cornell Cup, in which student inventors were judged on innovative applications of embedded technology.
The team, dubbed GEAR for Game Enhancing [...]