Roulettective: Repurposing a Vintage Slide Projector into an AI-Driven Physical Detective Game

Yuhan Wang, Jianuo Xuan

Track: Paper

Keywords: AI repurposing, Large Language Object, Affordance, Tangible Interface, AIGC, Game

TL;DR: Roulettective repurposes a vintage carousel slide projector as an AI-driven physical interface for immersive detective gameplay, demonstrating how outdated artifacts can be redesigned into creative, multimodal, and co-creative AI experiences.

Abstract: Roulettective is an AI-driven Physical Interface repurposing the vintage carousel slide projector for immersive detective gaming. The project explores the projector’s potential in a detective mystery solving game context, creating new usage scenarios by reprogramming its physical interaction mechanisms and integrating AI-driven gameplay. It further transforms this forgotten artifact into a multimodal, immersive, customizable, intuitive, and co-creative interface through AI-generated narratives, visuals, and sound. Roulettective focuses on repurposing the interface modalities that have been supplanted by current computing paradigms. It exemplifies a design paradigm for learning from outdated artifact legacies, introducing AI repurposing as a generalizable framework for AI-driven Physical Interfaces.

Submission Number: 121