TY - GEN
T1 - Sketch and run
T2 - 27th International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2009
AU - Sakamoto, Daisuke
AU - Honda, Koichiro
AU - Inami, Masahiko
AU - Igarashi, Takeo
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Numerous robots have been developed, and some of them are already being used in homes, institutions, and workplaces. Despite the development of useful robot functions, the focus so far has not been on user interfaces of robots. General users of robots find it hard to understand what the robots are doing and what kind of work they can do. This paper presents an interface for the commanding home robots by using stroke gestures on a computer screen. This interface allows the user to control robots and design their behaviors by sketching the robot's behaviors and actions on a top-down view from ceiling cameras. To convey a feeling of directly controlling the robots, our interface employs the live camera view. In this study, we focused on a house-cleaning task that is typical of home robots, and developed a sketch interface for designing behaviors of vacuuming robots.
AB - Numerous robots have been developed, and some of them are already being used in homes, institutions, and workplaces. Despite the development of useful robot functions, the focus so far has not been on user interfaces of robots. General users of robots find it hard to understand what the robots are doing and what kind of work they can do. This paper presents an interface for the commanding home robots by using stroke gestures on a computer screen. This interface allows the user to control robots and design their behaviors by sketching the robot's behaviors and actions on a top-down view from ceiling cameras. To convey a feeling of directly controlling the robots, our interface employs the live camera view. In this study, we focused on a house-cleaning task that is typical of home robots, and developed a sketch interface for designing behaviors of vacuuming robots.
KW - Home robot
KW - Human robot interaction
KW - Sketching interface
KW - Stroke gesture
KW - Stroke-based interface
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84892453929&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84892453929&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1518701.1518733
DO - 10.1145/1518701.1518733
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84892453929
SN - 9781605582474
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 197
EP - 200
BT - CHI 2009
Y2 - 4 April 2009 through 9 April 2009
ER -