The main goal of this seminar was to investigate the Wiimote as potentially interesting platform for finger tracking, gesture recognition and as HCI device. Wiimote outnumbered nowdays considering the recent sales information all other input devices. In spite of this fact and the bunch of sensors Wiimote contains motivated even more this venture.All observation were made targeting the e-Learning and e-Teaching as main area of appliance.
As practical result a primitive software kit named Wiimote Controll Desk was developed in C# based originally on J.C. Lee's Wii Whiteboards sourcecode and Brian Peek's WiimoteLib running on .NET Framework 2.0. All relevant links considering mentioned software can be found in "Material and Resources" and "Links" section of this site.
This Software can run in two different modes wih adequate hardware setup depicted in figures below including Wiimote and IR LED Array:
Controller Mode enables usage of Wiimote as presenter and long distance mouse.
Presenter Mode allows you to navigate through MS PowerPoint , Open Office's Impress presentations or common image galleries using finger tracking.
For detailed technical description and overview of modes and expiriences made in this seminar, also to get all information about how to run the tests with Wiimote please refer the text of seminar that can be downloaded here or from link in section "Materials and Resources".