Playware Ball – Development of an Intelligent Ball

DOI

10.2991/jrnal.k.201215.001How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Playful technology; playware; personal health technology; adaptive games; football

Abstract

For developing a novel kind of entertaining football and football training, we developed a playware ball prototype. The ball contains a microprocessor with WiFi connection and uses barometric pressure sensors and accelerometer data to track the ball movement in fast-paced football training games. The ball communicates with a tablet, on which games were developed that used the tracking of both skill level and the level of activity of the users. This kind of playware should motivate the users to play and have fun with the interactive ball. The initial findings indicate that the sensor fusion of barometric pressure data and accelerometer data proves reliable in the fast-paced setting of football games. Furthermore, the constructed prototype foam exercise ball proved a reliable container to house both the sensor and computational devices in a safe manner and could be useful for further tests on other aspects of combining gaming and physical exercise.

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© 2020 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press B.V.

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Morten Roed Frederiksen
AU  - Massimiliano Leggieri
AU  - Henrik Hautop Lund
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/21
TI  - Playware Ball – Development of an Intelligent Ball
JO  - Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life
SP  - 217
EP  - 221
VL  - 7
IS  - 4
SN  - 2352-6386
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.k.201215.001
DO  - 10.2991/jrnal.k.201215.001
ID  - Frederiksen2020
ER  -