Roulettective: Repurposing a Vintage Slide Projector into an AI-Driven Physical Detective Game
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 It exemplifies a design paradigm for learning from outdated artifact legacies, introducing AI repurposing as a generalizable framework for AI-driven Physical Interfaces. Requests for name changes in the electronic proceedings will be accepted with no questions asked. However name changes may cause bibliographic tracking issues. Authors are asked to consider this carefully and discuss it with their co-authors prior to requesting a name change in the electronic proceedings. Use the "Report an Issue" link to request a name change. Do not remove: This comment is monitored to verify that the site is working properly