1) The document discusses a project to create a range of motion concept using the Kinect sensor to allow those with limited mobility to fully use the sensor's capabilities. 2) The creator installed the Kinect on their PC and found code to manipulate the sensor's data streams and position. Research suggests shadows cause holes in body recognition images. 3) Moving forward, the creator plans to continue studying code repositories to build on existing work rather than reinventing solutions. They also want to explore changing the sensor's angle and light source to independently recognize a body in a wheelchair.

1. Kinect Range Of Motion Concept I want to create a range of motion concept to demonstrate adaptations of the Kinect sensor for Xbox 360 so that those with limited mobility, or people playing from wheelchairs can take full advantage of the sensor’s capabilities.

3. Search program specific tutorials for sensor manipulation:

5. Most of the Kinect hacks I have discovered thus far have to do with using the Kinect in non-gaming ways like teaching piano and various artistic endeavors such as painting on walls The search for insight continues.

6. Studying code from the libraries:

9. Research suggests that holes in body recognition image is due to shadows

10. Found code to manipulate sensor position and data streams

14. The fact that I haven’t been able to find people working on similar projects means that I’m going to have to dig a little deeper to understand different aspects of the project moving forward.

16. Perhaps I need to spend most of my days searching through code rather than worrying so much about graphic data.

18. I’m definitely going to explore the idea of changing the angle of the infrared light source to see if I can create a “cut-out” of myself that’s independently recognizable from the wheelchair.

19. If time permits, I might take a look at the heat signature idea that Sam proposed and see if there’s something where we might perhaps be able to re-encode the depth image and have the coloring of body regions be different for those areas where animate objects are present than from inanimate objects. That one might be a long shot, and it may need to be implemented later in the process if it does in fact require hardware adaptations.