Welcome to the world of the Diggums, a peaceful, slightly nervous species which lives on a bit of meteor in the far reaches of space. It is your job to make their lives a little more interesting.

Multiple users can interact with these little critters at the same time, by poking them, picking them up, and throwing them across the landscape.

Planet Diggum is a multiplayer game which uses an intuitive finger/hand gesture based interface. Played on a FTIR multitouch screen, our project leverages open source software libraries, low-cost hardware, and standards-based 3D protocols.

Papers

Paul J. Diefenbach, William Muto, Sara Colucci, Chester Cunanan, Justin Dobies, James Grow, Matthew Smith, "Planet Diggum: Multi-point Touch and Gesture Control of Gaming Environments" Distributed Multimedia Systems Conference (DMS 2007), San Francisco, 2007.

Multimedia


DMS '07 Video (4:37) (MPEG-4, 31.5 MB)
DMS '07 Presentation (PDF, 2.16 MB)

The Team (Spring/Summer '07)

Dr. Paul Diefenbach
Louis Kratz
William Muto
Matthew Smith
Chester Cunanan
Justin Dobies
Arvind Neelakantan
Sara Colucci
James Grow

With special thanks to:
Dr. Frank Lee
Ko Nishino
Craig Polakoff
Timothy Kurzweg
Vijay Balchandani
Eric Effinger
Jeevan Kotha
Pannha Prak
Joseph Romeo
Drexel infinitouch