SymBall: camera driven table tennis for mobile phones

We present a table tennis game concept, implemented for Symbian OS/Series 60 mobile phones, using the phone's integrated camera as the main game controller. The game demonstrates how the integrated cameras are already usable for interaction on mobile phones, with real time performance. Data communication between the phones is handled using Bluetooth, but the implementation would allow for using slower radio links too. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces – input devices and strategies, interaction styles, I.4.8 [Image Processing and Computer Vision]: Scene Analysis – Color, K.8 [Personal Computing]: General – Games. General Terms Algorithms, Performance, Design, Human Factors. Keywords Camera phones, feature detection, mobile games.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ACMACE
• Authors: Mika Hakkarainen, Charles Woodward
• Keywords: ACMACE 2005, Integrated Cameras, Mobile Phones, Phone's Integrated Camera