Beckoning robots with the eyes
Beckoning robots with the eyes
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- DOI: 10.1049/ic:20050244
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- Author(s): Source: IEE Seminar on Intelligent Building Environments, 2005 page ()
- Conference: IEE Seminar on Intelligent Building Environments
- DOI: 10.1049/ic:20050244
- ISBN: 0 86341 518 0
- Location: Colchester, UK
- Conference date: 28 June 2005
- Format: PDF
Eye contact is an effective means of controlling human communication, such as in starting communication. It seems that we can make eye contact if we simply look at each other. However, this alone does not establish eye contact. Both parties also need to be aware of being watched by the other. We propose a method of eye contact considering these two conditions for human-robot communication. When a human wants to start communication with a robot, he/she watches the robot. If it finds a human looking at it, the robot turns to him/her, changing its facial expressions to let him/her know its awareness of his/her gaze. This completes eye contact. We then present a robot with a wide field of view using three cameras. If a person wants the robot to come to him/her, he can do so just by making eye contact with the robot. (7 pages)
Inspec keywords: human computer interaction; robot vision; object detection; cameras
Subjects: Robotics; Computer vision and image processing techniques; Optical, image and video signal processing; User interfaces
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