UVic Friendship Cube Club Moving Forward University of Victoria, British Columbia, September 26th, 2012

The local UVic Friendship Cube Club has been developing and releasing pioneering breakthroughs in interface software using the new Emotiv EPOC neuro-headset electroencephalography (EEG) hardware. Graeme Kilshaw, a founding club member, is focused on small tangible goals like helping wheelchair operators on campus. The local campus club is refining the core symbolic language for human-computer interface. Friendship Cube Club members have been exploring hands-free typing software and developing quick-texting apps. The friendship cube club focuses on using the friendship cube to achieve, communicate, and teach. Instead of 26 alphabet block letters for communications, there is just one friendship cube with diamond symbols that rotate. In the friendship cube code, each phonetic sound has a unique binary placeholder in visual binary. The friendship cube has a diamond symbol with lines and squares that rotate, creating unique visual binary coded. Friendship Cube Code resembles Quick Response (QR) code as it contains visual binary information. The difference between QR and friendship cube code is that the friendship cube code is easily recognizable by both webcams and the human eye. The cubes are rotated in 3 dimensions, kind of like rubix cubes only different. Symbols rotate to form individual letters and combine to create anagram words. With all angles, all phonetic letters for the hands-free typing interface are available: (four of the letters are made through combining phonetic sounds: G=J+Y, K=C+X, Q +C+W, and Z+S+Y). The local Friendship Cube Club offers members the opportunity to practice mind-overmatter; mind-over-machine. Some club members have been involved in significant research and breakthroughs. Using the Emotiv EPOC hardware, club members are controlling the friendship cube on-screen with the ability to move, rotate, and spin the cube, as well as select symbols and make space. New friendship cube software is opening up portals between users and computers. Users gain clear advantages and benefits from friendship cube software interfaces, including faster and more accurate input. Friendship cube software and hardware enable users to play, share, and learn in new ways. Through interactive and entertaining multiplayer games, friendship cube hardware and software teaches visual tracking, pattern recognition, hand-eye coordination, communication, navigation, memory, strategy, and teamwork skills. Webcams have been programmed to recognize the handheld friendship cube symbols so that cube-holders may interact in fun, collaborative, multiplayer virtual environments. Silicon friendship cubes are being manufactured and imported from China. In the future, each soft-silicon cube will have an RFID tag so that users are able to name and keep track of individual cubes. Friendship cubes and software are having a profound impact on digitized and virtual classrooms, enabling self-paced learning in virtual environments. Students with the Emotiv EPOC hardware are learning to use the virtual friendship cube to communicate and learn in new, novel ways. Eager learners of all ages and backgrounds get to practice inputting and organizing data strait from the headset without the need for a mouse or keyboard. Friendship cube code is a merger representing new possibilities. The cultural tipping point has been reached. In the process of playing, sharing, and learning with friendship cube software, students have gained the advantage of learning visual binary numeracy as well as the most optimal language for global literacy.

The UVic Friendship Cube Club may be reached @ (250) 220-0947