An actuated physical puppet as an input device for controlling a digital manikin

Wataru Yoshizaki; Yuta Sugiura; Albert C. Chiou; Sunao Hashimoto; Masahiko Inami; Takeo Igarashi; Yoshiaki Akazawa; Katsuaki Kawachi; Satoshi Kagami; Masaaki Mochimaru

doi:10.1145/1978942.1979034

An actuated physical puppet as an input device for controlling a digital manikin

Wataru Yoshizaki, Yuta Sugiura, Albert C. Chiou, Sunao Hashimoto, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi, Yoshiaki Akazawa, Katsuaki Kawachi, Satoshi Kagami, Masaaki Mochimaru

Department of Information and Computer Science

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Abstract

We present an actuated handheld puppet system for controlling the posture of a virtual character. Physical puppet devices have been used in the past to intuitively control character posture. In our research, an actuator is added to each joint of such an input device to provide physical feedback to the user. This enhancement offers many benefits. First, the user can upload pre-defined postures to the device to save time. Second, the system is capable of dynamically adjusting joint stiffness to counteract gravity, while allowing control to be maintained with relatively little force. Third, the system supports natural human body behaviors, such as whole-body reaching and joint coupling. This paper describes the user interface and implementation of the proposed technique and reports the results of expert evaluation. We also conducted two user studies to evaluate the effectiveness of our method.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts
Pages	637-646
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979034
Publication status	Published - 2011 Jun 13
Event	29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011 - Vancouver, BC, Canada Duration: 2011 May 7 → 2011 May 12

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Other

Other	29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011
Country	Canada
City	Vancouver, BC
Period	11/5/7 → 11/5/12

Keywords

Force feedback
Input device
Posture
Robot

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Yoshizaki, W., Sugiura, Y., Chiou, A. C., Hashimoto, S., Inami, M., Igarashi, T., Akazawa, Y., Kawachi, K., Kagami, S., & Mochimaru, M. (2011). An actuated physical puppet as an input device for controlling a digital manikin. In CHI 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts (pp. 637-646). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979034

An actuated physical puppet as an input device for controlling a digital manikin. / Yoshizaki, Wataru; Sugiura, Yuta; Chiou, Albert C.; Hashimoto, Sunao; Inami, Masahiko; Igarashi, Takeo; Akazawa, Yoshiaki; Kawachi, Katsuaki; Kagami, Satoshi; Mochimaru, Masaaki.

CHI 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts. 2011. p. 637-646 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Yoshizaki, W, Sugiura, Y, Chiou, AC, Hashimoto, S, Inami, M, Igarashi, T, Akazawa, Y, Kawachi, K, Kagami, S & Mochimaru, M 2011, An actuated physical puppet as an input device for controlling a digital manikin. in CHI 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, pp. 637-646, 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 11/5/7. https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979034

Yoshizaki W, Sugiura Y, Chiou AC, Hashimoto S, Inami M, Igarashi T et al. An actuated physical puppet as an input device for controlling a digital manikin. In CHI 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts. 2011. p. 637-646. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979034

Yoshizaki, Wataru ; Sugiura, Yuta ; Chiou, Albert C. ; Hashimoto, Sunao ; Inami, Masahiko ; Igarashi, Takeo ; Akazawa, Yoshiaki ; Kawachi, Katsuaki ; Kagami, Satoshi ; Mochimaru, Masaaki. / An actuated physical puppet as an input device for controlling a digital manikin. CHI 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts. 2011. pp. 637-646 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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