Creator
Hoi In YEUNG, Department of Electronic Engineering

Sum Wan Sophia NG, School of Creative Media

Wai Chung Vivian LAW, School of Creative Media

King Kwan NG, School of Creative Media

About the Work

The “Interactive Projection Game” is a series of interactive games designed for elderly people with dementia. In these games, the players use their memory and limbs to complete various tasks, helping them maintain their cognitive skills in a fun and physically engaging way. While there are similar products on the market already, we found that they are primarily designed for foreign cultures and are predominantly in English. We wanted to make something that incorporates the local culture of Hong Kong, so that local elderly people can relate to it more easily, making it more engaging and entertaining.

The games are called “HK under the Sand”, “Mahjong Matching” “Dim Sum Guardian” and “Memory Dim Sum”. Each game has a different level of difficulty to cater to elderly people with dementia with varying levels of cognitive ability. Through these games, we hope to provide people with dementia with an extra option to exercise their brains that is fun and engaging to help maintain their cognitive skills.

Mechanism

We used Processing, which is based on Java, to make the game. There are existing libraries available for Processing that enables communication between the computer and Kinect, greatly simplifying the development process. Any computer that we can install Java on should be able to run these games. The Kinect acts as a motion sensor and any other projector should work just as well.