Supporting Physical Activity Based on Concept of Augmented Human

Abstract

This document describes examples of supporting systems for human physical activity, which based on the concept of augmented human. The first system is a tongue input interface that is capable to be used by people who have malfunction in their limbs. This system is used to encourage tongue and mouth training game named Squachu. The second system is designed to augment human’s physical ability by using virtual parameters. These parameters are used to compensate human physical ability in dodgeball. This document also intended to show potential of augmented human in supporting human physical activity through those examples.