Design of a Wireless Gesture Activated PowerPoint Controller
Wasswa, Charles (2011)
Wasswa, Charles
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
2011
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 1.0 Finland
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201105188592
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201105188592
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The desire to give effective presentations lead to the development of different types of visual aids including flip charts, overhead transparencies, posters and digital slide shows. The digital slide shows had improved the effectiveness of the presentation and the audience size, but the need to be next to the keyboard or mouse, created a vacuum for new innovations. There was a need for some form of wireless control of the slides movement. Presenters have always wanted the freedom of movement during their presentation sessions.
The purpose of this project was to design and implement a device that would provide the remote control of PowerPoint slide shows. The project was started by gathering the specification requirements from which design requirements were derived. The selection of the required components was done after thorough examination of dependencies between the different parts of the project. The implementation phase started with the hardware followed by the software. The final phase was testing through which all modules from both the software and hardware were tested before the integration testing was carried out.
The objective of the project was achieved and now it is possible to control the slides remotely using a gesture. The Wireless Gesture activated PowerPoint Controller (WGPC) will give presenters the freedom of movement during their presentations. By imitating book-page opening and closing, with the controller tied on the arm, a presenter is able to move the slides back and forth.
The purpose of this project was to design and implement a device that would provide the remote control of PowerPoint slide shows. The project was started by gathering the specification requirements from which design requirements were derived. The selection of the required components was done after thorough examination of dependencies between the different parts of the project. The implementation phase started with the hardware followed by the software. The final phase was testing through which all modules from both the software and hardware were tested before the integration testing was carried out.
The objective of the project was achieved and now it is possible to control the slides remotely using a gesture. The Wireless Gesture activated PowerPoint Controller (WGPC) will give presenters the freedom of movement during their presentations. By imitating book-page opening and closing, with the controller tied on the arm, a presenter is able to move the slides back and forth.