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When realizing gestural interaction in a typical living environment there often is an offset between user-perceived and machine-perceived direction of pointing, which can hinder reliable selection of elements in the surroundings. This work presents a support system that provides visual feedback to a freely gesturing user; thus enabling reliable selection of and interaction with reactive elements in intelligent environments. We have created a prototype that is showcasing this feedback method based on gesture recognition using the Microsoft Kinect and visual support provision using a custom built laser-robot. Finally an evaluation has been performed, in order to prove the efficiency of such a system, acquire usability feedback and determine potential learning effects for gesture-based interaction.
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Majewski, M., Braun, A., Marinc, A., Kuijper, A. (2013). Providing Visual Support for Selecting Reactive Elements in Intelligent Environments. In: Gavrilova, M.L., Tan, C.J.K., Kuijper, A. (eds) Transactions on Computational Science XVIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7848. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38803-3_14
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