Hand gesture-based manipulation of a personalized avatar robot in remote communication

Authors:
Teruaki Ito
Affiliations:
The Institute of Technolgy and Science, The University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan
Venue:
HI'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Human interface and the management of information - Volume Part I
Year:
2011

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Abstract

This study proposes an idea of hand gesture-based manipulation of an personalized avatar robot for video conference and presents the on-going work for this study. To achieve this goal, a remote controlled communication robot called Collabo-Bot is under development, which has face projection, maneuvering and manipulation functions to improve the better communication over the network. One of the challenging ideas in this study is to personalize the communication robot using face projection to represent the operator. By doing this, the remote operating person who controls the robot enables the video conference attendees at the local site to feel the existence of the operator much stronger than a regular video conference without using a robot, or even than a typical robot-based conference. In addition to that, hand gesture-based manipulation is under study to control the avatar robot. This paper overviews the design and manufacturing of Collabo-Bot and presents some experimental results on the implementation of this hand gesture-based manipulation.