Pillo Gaming Experience
Building for
tomorrow’s needs
Pillo Gaming Experience
Game Development
Hardware Integration
User Experience Design
A unique gaming system using a pillow as a controller, designed for people in special care homes.
Date
2022
Client
Pillo (Hulan)
Phase
Production
Life impact
Giving people with multiple disabilities the joy of gaming
Dream
To enable everyone, regardless of intellectual or multiple disabilities, to engage in gaming by transforming an ordinary pillow into an interactive game controller.
Challenge
- Making a regular pillow pressure sensitive
- Integrating all electronics while maintaining a small form factor
- Implementing an automatic calibration function for user ease.
- Selecting the right materials for the sensor-integrated fabric.
- Combining rigid PCBs with flexible textile components.
Solution
- Created a pillow with a textile pressure sensor to control games on a connected screen.
- Enabled Bluetooth connectivity to link the pillow with an Apple TV, displaying the game on a monitor.
- Designed the interaction so that hugging or compressing the pillow activates the game, allowing for solo or group play.
- Very easy to activate and use by caregivers, to maximise play time and minimise hassle.
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