Title :
Interactive remote laboratories with gesture based interface through microsoft kinect
Author_Institution :
Indian Inst. of Technol., Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
Abstract :
Traditionally remote laboratory experiments are performed by providing inputs either by keying using a keypad or through mouse movement and clicking. These methods lack in providing real-time experience (touch) of the knobs (operation) of the instruments to the learners. In undergraduate and mainly in high school education, many experiments particularly in physics, chemistry and engineering involve a set of physical interaction with the instruments rather than just typed inputs from a keypad. In this paper, we discuss the gesture-based approach which allows learners to provide inputs using physical movement of the hand (or gestures) which are captured by Microsoft Kinect. We show that gesture-based interface provide more interesting and immersive ways to perform real-time experiments in remote laboratories.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; engineering education; gesture recognition; interactive devices; laboratories; Microsoft Kinect; gesture based interface; hand physical movement; high school education; interactive remote laboratories; knob real-time experience; mouse clicking; mouse movement; physical interaction; undergraduate; Educational institutions; Human computer interaction; Instruments; Physics; Real-time systems; Remote laboratories; Adobe flash; Microsoft Kinect; gesture-based computing; human-computer interaction; remote laboratories;
Conference_Titel :
Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV), 2013 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6345-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6344-0
DOI :
10.1109/REV.2013.6502900