Project: “Fast Hands”
Venue: “Sport” Show, Ontario Science Centre
Location: Toronto, Canada
Date: Summer, 1990
Client: Ontario Science Centre
Contributors: Matthew Bates in the employ of OSC (electronics,
programming), OSC design and fabrication (housing)

Client’s Requirements:
It was desired to have a sports related exhibit that had no biases related to the sex of the participants. It was also desired to gather and present the statistics of participants, segregated by sex. Reaction time was chosen as the subject.

Fulfillment:
The exhibit was controlled by custom programmed microprocessors. A close and private feel to the exhibit was afforded by the use of small, state of the art LCD displays (now common to laptop computers). Statistics were gathered and presented for the last 25 participants. Statistics over the long run were available to an external computer link for research carried out in conjunction with a local university.