last update: August 9, 2006
Eat-Eat-Eat
Wingly Shih and Yu-Chun Oreo Huang
[Eat-Eat-Eat Demo download] (needs to work with a Webcam)
Introduction
Eat-Eat-Eat is a game for visually exploring food alternatives in a night marketplace. The system demonstrates that body motion and audio inputs can be mapped as an avatar inside the projected screen. As moving around to catch the food dropping from the sky, the player needs hold a microphone to yell and speak the name of the food loudly to get the food eaten and counted into scores.
This game was designed under the context of the Taiwanese night marketplace which is full of food, gadgets, toys and clothes. Lots small restaurants and various kinds of food are people's typical impression of a night marketplace. People tend to have lots of different kinds of small dishes during that night. Eat-Eat-Eat collected 20 different typical Taiwanese small dishes.
The game starts after a player loudly speaks "I AM HUNGRAY!" The night market scene begins from small dishes dropping from the sky and moving around the screen. Based on the video input from a WebCAM, the player can control the avatar to move from left to right inside the screen. The player has to yell "EAT" or the name of the dish to catch them and count into scores.
Eat-Eat-Eat system was well-implemented in Adobe Flash. The demonstration in the workshop was stable and compelling. Around 50 people had played this interactive night market eating game. Visitors who played this game all agreed that they felt a bit hungry after seeing the delicious food photos and expressing their desire in eating by speaking the name of dishes loudly.
This game showed its interactivity
that uses human body motion and voice-input in a context of night marketplace
eating experience. Attention Meter allows tracking body movement as simple external
input parameters in Flash. This team also implemented voice-input for multimodal
interaction that enables players to yell and speak loudly to interact with the
game.