TED Talk Alpha World of Warcraft from TEDxAmsterdam on Vimeo.
aWoW (Alpha World of Warcraft) is an application that extracts your state of mind and applies this information in the actual game. By means of relaxing or agitating yourself you are able to control the shape of your character in World of Warcraft, you will change from elf to bear depending on what is measured on your head.
Danny Plass and Bram van de Laar of University Twente present their work on this application. Patrick de Laive of the Next Web shows his mental powers!
The demo was reported on in Wired UK: “A team from the University of Twente showed how it was possible to play World of Warcraft using one’s mind to change the avatar: the stress level of the human guinea pig caused his avatar to change from pig to wizard, adding an extra modality to the game.”
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