This project presents a sport of the past using current technologies to recreate the experience of jousting for visitors to the Higgins Armory Museum. Through collaboration with museum staff, intensive historical research, and a rigorous, iterative software development cycle, the project team developed a jousting simulation using technologies that incorporated Java, Flash, TCP/IP sockets, Bluetooth and XML. Nintendo Wii remotes, embedded in a lance stub and to horse reins, were also used to further simulate realism in the user-application interface.

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Creator

• Liu, Justin
• Shidlovsky, Steven Douglas
• Newell, Patrick Joseph
• Kim, Hyungjoon

Subject

• Computing
• Industry
• Culture

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042909-134317

Keyword

• Web sites--Design and construction
• Application software--Development
• Museum exhibits

Advisor

• Forgeng, Jeffrey L.

Year

• 2009

Sponsor

• Higgins Armory Museum

Date created

• 2009-04-29

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright