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With Nintendo betting on controller configurations as the next hurdle toward gaining a wider and more diverse audience for gaming, Haiyan Zhang of the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea has taken the idea to its logical limits with her masters thesis.
Called Control Freaks, its basic operational unit is a small clamp with a circuit board which, when attached to essentially any object or person, transforms it into its own unique control device. As part of the thesis Zhang created two games to be played by swinging characters via a turning office chair, or physically jumping with a Control Freak attached to a player's hip.
The potential, she says, lies in its ability to be "attached onto any object at anytime, setting up an opportunity to play. The type of object, its location and its circumstance all become opportunistic license for fun," with wireless multiplayer leading to physical social play.
Videos and keyboard-playable versions of her creations can be viewed on her site.