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Design of Hand Gestures for Smart Home Appliances based on a User Centered Approach

스마트홈 내 기기와의 상호작용을 위한 사용자 중심의 핸드 제스처 도출

  • Choi, Eun-Jung (Department of Industrial and Management Engineering Pohang University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kwon, Sung-Hyuk (Department of Industrial and Management Engineering Pohang University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Lee, Dong-Hun (Department of Industrial and Management Engineering Pohang University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Lee, Ho-Jin (Department of Industrial and Management Engineering Pohang University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Chung, Min-K. (Department of Industrial and Management Engineering Pohang University of Science and Technology)
  • 최은정 (포항공과대학교 산업경영공학과) ;
  • 권성혁 (포항공과대학교 산업경영공학과) ;
  • 이동훈 (포항공과대학교 산업경영공학과) ;
  • 이호진 (포항공과대학교 산업경영공학과) ;
  • 정민근 (포항공과대학교 산업경영공학과)
  • Received : 2012.03.05
  • Accepted : 2012.05.19
  • Published : 2012.09.01

Abstract

With the progress of both wire and wireless home networking technology, various projects on smart home have been carried out in the world (Harper, 2003), and at the same time, new approaches to interact with smart home systems efficiently and effectively have also been investigated. A gesture-based interface is one of these approaches. Especially with advance of gesture recognition technologies, a variety of research studies on gesture interactions with the functions of IT devices have been conducted. However, there are few research studies which suggested and investigated the use of gestures for controlling smart home appliances. In this research the gestures for selected smart home appliances are suggested based on a user centered approach. A total of thirty-eight functions were selected, and a total of thirty participants generated gestures for each function. Based on the Nielsen (2004), Lee et al. (2010) and Kuhnel et al. (2011), the gesture with the highest frequency for each function (Top gesture) has been suggested and investigated.

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