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Interesting interaction between videotracking and computer games

In his blog, Jonas Hielscher wrote about an animal controlled computer game), where a player can play Pacman against real crickets! It is so cool, I shamelessly copy and paste his screenshot here :

Bugs playing pacman with you

I find it cool to see nice application of tracking, like I did (tracking) with my rodents:

Tracking of a rat in the Morris water maze
Tracking of a rat in the Morris water maze
rat = big, red spot on top
its trail from bottom is also in red

Next time, rats will solve crosswords …

rat solving crosswords

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Posted in Lab life, User Interface.