Case: Wii Safety Concerns

A big concern with the Sports Training Tool has occurred to me after reading about the Wii Safety Concerns that are being reported with alarming regularity.

The website Wii Have a Problem outlines some of the cases of injury being suffered whilst playing the Wii. The main problem is that, with most computer games, the players can easily lose themselves in it and then forget the dimensions of the area they are playing in. One such person punched the ceiling when celebrating an excellent golf game. Although these kinds of accidents can happen with any console/controller others are more Wii specific. Another example on the website shows images of a person's girlfriend who was smacked in the face by the Wii controller while the boyfriend was playing Wii Tennis. Other accidents include the Wii controller flying out of ther person's hand and doing damage such as broken windows and televisions.

These are some serious concerns that we need to consider when deciding on our final project idea. Playing sports at school always has an element of risk, but we shouldn't develop a tool to increase this risk.