Games of drones: an affective game with cyber-physical systems

Abstract

Games have transformed from PC-based games to more immersive controllers, but gameplay has been limited to a digital screen or a virtual reality headset. In this demo, we present a novel indoor game that allows a player to maneuver the drone altitude by sensing their emotional state using affective sensors. This game demo introduces two innovations in sensing and actuation for next-generation indoor gaming: maneuvering physical objects such as drones for gameplay and sensing the player's emotional state using affective sensors as a control input. Therefore, the immersive experience of players is heightened same as that of real world. We begin to address the systems challenges in building the gaming platform for "Game-of-drones".