Playing Pac-Man against Real Crickets

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The computer game we used for our experiment is "Pac-Man" (Namco, 1980). Instead of computer code, we want to have animals controlling the ghosts. To enable this, we built a real maze for the animals to walk around in, with its proportions and layout matching the maze of the computer game. The position of the animals in the maze is detected using colour-tracking via a camera, and linked to the ghosts in the game. This way, the real animals are directly controlling the virtual ghosts.

Video clip here

More here:
http://pong.hku.nl/~wim/bugman.htm