Augmented dice allow players of tabletop games to have the result of a roll be automatically recorded by a computer, e.g., for supporting strategy games. We have built a set of three augmented-dice-prototypes based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, which allows us to build robust, cheap, and small augmented dice. Using a corresponding readout infrastructure and a sample appli...

This document provides a user’s guide for DICE Version 1.0. The emphasis in this user’s guide is on providing detailed specifications for setting up and using the various features in DICE. For a general overview of DICE and descriptions of some of its core features, see Reference [1]. This user’s guide is supplemented by various materials that are available electronically from the DICE User’s G...

DICE is a shared-bus multiprocessor based on a distributed shared-memory architecture, known as cache-only memory architecture (COMA). Unlike previous COMA proposals for large-scale multiprocessing, DICE utilizes COMA to effectively decrease the speed gap between modem high-performance microprocessors and the bus. DICE tries to optimize COMA for a shared-bus medium, in particular to reduce detr...

In this paper, we present the Smart Dice Cup, a novel interaction device aimed at gaming applications in smart home environments. The Smart Dice Cup is used in a similar way as a traditional leather dice cup to generate random numbers. Integrated accelerometers relate the shaking of the device to the resulting rolls of the dice. In addition to an autonomous stand-alone mode, where the Smart Dic...

In this paper, based on the features of dice images and the least distance criterion (LDC) method, we developed an autorecognition scheme for dice games. First, we use R plane to replace gray-scale image to speed up processing. Next, we use O’stu method to convert the R plane into binary. Furthermore, image pre-processing steps are used to filter out the noise, and a non-circular object discard...