Neat ideas that could turned into accessible music fun.

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Playing games requiring delicate movements made trainee surgeons better .

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Bogus! The guy is too fast so he can't play . We can't have these disabled people showing us up. The Olympics are just sad.

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We want to give away software for fun and learning and we want it to run on as many machines as possible. I think these are my minimum requirements.

• One full-screen window, with 2D graphics and text.
• Stereo sound with panning control at least.
• Text to speech.
• USB game controllers like DDR pads, joysticks, etc.
• Access to new devices like the Wiimote

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Our games and tools for kids with disabilities should run on whatever computer they have at the school (typically an old PC running some version of Windows or a Mac). One alternative to cross-platform testing might be a LiveCD that boots some OS (say Linux) and runs our software. Then our development environment is fixed and we're relying on the OS to cover over hardware differences. Pete and I spent a bit of time this last weekend trying our various LiveCDs to see how little memory they could be made to use.

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I'm just beginning to play with the Wiimote as an input device for accessible games so I tried shaking it in time with some music using a little program I already had in place. The accelerometer data seemed very delayed so I decided to check out its latency. My initial experiments described below indicate that it is very low.

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Pete sent a pointer to this video demonstrating drumming with the Wii Remote .

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Excellent post from Pete on real the benefits of spatial audio in the user interface.

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Gretchen sent a pointer to this inspirational AAC video .

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We should check out these to give us ideas for an accessible music toy.

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