DocumentCode :
3003975
Title :
Gaze based robot control: The communicative approach
Author :
Fedorova, A.A. ; Shishkin, S.L. ; Nuzhdin, Y.O. ; Velichkovsky, B.M.
Author_Institution :
NBICS Centre, Nat. Res. Centre “Kurchatov Inst.”, Moscow, Russia
fYear :
2015
fDate :
22-24 April 2015
Firstpage :
751
Lastpage :
754
Abstract :
We propose a novel way of robotic device control with communicative eye movements that could possibly help to solve the problem of false activations during the gaze control, known as the Midas touch problem. The proposed approach can be considered as explicitly based on communication between a human operator and a robot. Specifically, we employed gaze patterns that are characteristic for “joint attention” type of communication between two persons. “Joint attention” gaze patterns are automatized and able to convey information about object location even under a high cognitive load. Therefore, we assumed that they may make robot control with gaze more stable. In a study with 28 healthy participants who were naive to this approach most of them easily acquired robot control with “joint attention” gaze patterns. The study did not reveal higher preference for communicative type of control, possibly because the participants did not practice before the tests. We discuss potential benefits of the new approach that can be tested in future studies.
Keywords :
gaze tracking; human-robot interaction; Midas touch problem; communicative approach; communicative eye movements; gaze-based robot control; high-cognitive load; human operator; joint attention; robotic device control; Instruments; Joints; Robot control; Robot sensing systems; Switches; Testing;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Neural Engineering (NER), 2015 7th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on
Conference_Location :
Montpellier
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/NER.2015.7146732
Filename :
7146732
Link To Document :
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