GAME SCIENCE and FISHBON BREATHLESS @ Fishbon Event Lab Wednesday

GAME SCIENCE and FISHBON BREATHLESS

OK, you know you've always wanted to be part of a scientific experiment..so here's your big chance. Tonight we'll be testing Randy's Tactile Motion Effects System (translate: motion actuators that vibrate along with audio from an action video sequence). Long time Event Lab enthusiasts may remember when he brought his rigged up Harley to Helena St.

Here's how it works. We'll attach an actuator pad to each of the four legs of 6 chairs in the Pescadrome. Then we'll ask six people to sit in them and attach Alan's biofeedback sensors to their fingers. To be sure the system is really working we'll also attach sensors to six other experiment-ees sitting on chairs with no actuators. Then we'll turn the lights down and show a cool action scene. The chairs vibrate and you feel like you're in the scene. Or at least that's what the experiment is about.* The sensors will collect data so we'll be able to find out for sure. Don't miss this. Later in the evening we'll talk about how to get involved in Fishbon Breathless, our full-scale August event.

So bring libations and join us at the Fishbon Pescadrome, 101 S. Quarantina in Santa Barbara.

Info: 805-453-5246

or check out the blog at http://www.fishboneventlab.blogspot.com/

*Scientific Explanation We will record average electrodermal activity levels in two groups of people, with only one group experiencing tactile motion effects. We will compare results from the two groups in real-time as they perceive the identical audio-visual presentation.

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