You're In Control is a new interactive game developed at MIT that might just piss you off:
The You’re In Control system uses computation to enhance the act of urination. Sensors in the back of a urinal detect the position of a stream of urine, enabling people to play interactive games on a screen mounted above the urinal.
Researchers Dan Maynes-Aminzade and Hayes Solos Raffle claim that by making the act of elimination fun, the game will help enforce "social codes of sanitation." They present methods by which women can play as well.
We programmed a custom interactive game in C++ on the Windows 2000 operating system. Our software reads the state of the sensor array from the microcontroller over a serial data link at a rate of 100 samples per second. The game we chose was a variant of Whack-A-Mole, a classic carnival game. Users aim at a series of jumping hamsters, with input position on the urinal corresponding to target position on the screen above.Back to Compendium
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