Multi-touch interaction for robot control

Authors:
Mark Micire;Jill L. Drury;Brenden Keyes;Holly A. Yanco
Affiliations:
University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA;The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA;The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA;University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Recent developments in multi-touch technologies have exposed fertile ground for research in enriched human-robot interaction. Although multi-touch technologies have been used for virtual 3D applications, to the authors' knowledge, ours is the first study to explore the use of a multi-touch table with a physical robot agent. This baseline study explores the control of a single agent with a multi-touch table using an adapted, previously studied, joystick-based interface. We performed a detailed analysis of users' interaction styles with two complex functions of the multi-touch interface and isolated mismatches between user expectations and interaction functionality.