The I-CubeX line of products aim to facilitate the design and implementation of environments and objects that respond to human actions such as walking, reaching, touching etc. as well as environmental parameters such as illumination, temperature, humidity etc.. The response can be in the form of sound, music, video, graphics, animation, robotic movement, etc.. Such responses are generated by 3rd party equipment. While it is a widely used tool for prototyping and experimentation wrt. human interfacing it is also perfectly suitable as a scientific research tool to gather data about movement and behaviour.
Application scope
The I-CubeX line of products only includes tools to capture the human actions and/or environmental variables and the tools to make these signals available to other equipment such as a computer or a musical instrument. To communicate with such equipment the MIDI data format is used, transmitted via MIDI cable or Bluetooth wireless. MIDI is a widely implemented protocol for communications between musical equipment which has also found its way into video, graphics and animation software as well as various equipments, such as lights, used in theme parks and live shows. Even though I-CubeX uses the MIDI data format, tools are provided to output to devices that use other protocols, enlarging its application scope to gaming, engineering and science.
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