Student project aims to teach different cultures using Kinect and Windows Phone
1 min. read
Published on
Share this article
Improve this guide
Read our disclosure page to find out how can you help MSPoweruser sustain the editorial team Read more
Ro Ramtohul’s student project is to increase UK citizen’s familiarity with other cultures using a bit of technology.
In his project demonstrated above users would be incentivised to learn a new culturally relevant gesture every day, e.g. bowing in Japan, in order to control the television.
Lessons would be delivered via a Windows Phone and performance measured via a Kinect connected to an IR Blaster, which ultimately controls the TV.
For myself the neatest bit of the technology is where notifications get sent to a Windows Phone when a user goes in front of a Kinect, and one can imagine all kinds of applications for this, from location-based reminders, family notice boards to relevant news summaries and status updates.
Read more about Ro’s project at his project website here.
