Through integrating the Wearable API* produced by Aalto’s Lighthouse Project a group of master students have implemented a serious game about climate change making aware of rising global temperatures through Thermal Wearables and Virtual Reality where the player must carefully choose its actions in order to lead the planet into a cooler future. π
Students: Aitor Urruticoechea Puig, Anh Pham, Saeideh Mansouri
*Esa Vikberg, Yu-Han Tseng, Tim Moesgen, Ramyah Gowrishankar, and Yu Xiao. 2024. ThermoTouch: Exploring a modular design of a programmable wearable thermo-haptic device. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences Workshops (IMXw ’24). https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3672406.3672423
Making Aware of Climate Change via Wearables and VR
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