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Translating human intent into robot commands is crucial for the future of service robots in an aging society. Existing Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) systems relying on gestures or verbal commands are impractical for the elderly due to…

Touch,face,voice recognition and movement sensors all are part of an emerging field of computing often called natural user interface, or NUI. Interacting with technology in these humanistic ways is no longer limited to high tech secret…

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At the present time, hand gestures recognition system could be used as a more expected and useable approach for human computer interaction. Automatic hand gesture recognition system provides us a new tactic for interactive with the virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Reza Azad , Babak Azad , Nabil Belhaj Khalifa , Shahram Jamali

Virtual reality (VR) has been increasingly utilised as a simulation tool for human-robot interaction (HRI) studies due to its ability to facilitate fast and flexible prototyping. Despite efforts to achieve high validity in VR studies,…

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Robot capabilities are maturing across domains, from self-driving cars, to bipeds and drones. As a result, robots will soon no longer be confined to safety-controlled industrial settings; instead, they will directly interact with the…

Gestures form an important medium of communication between humans and machines. An overwhelming majority of existing gesture recognition methods are tailored to a scenario where humans and machines are located very close to each other. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Shubhang Bhatnagar , Sharath Gopal , Narendra Ahuja , Liu Ren

Non-verbal communication plays a particularly important role in a wide range of scenarios in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Accordingly, this work addresses the problem of human gesture recognition. In particular, we focus on head and eye…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Javier Marina-Miranda , V. Javier Traver

Recently, human-robot interaction (HRI) is an extensive research topic and theme which gained importance and significance. HRI aims at the complementary combination between the robot capabilities and human skills. The robots assist humans…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Abdel-Nasser Sharkawy

With the advancements in human-robot interaction (HRI), robots are now capable of operating in close proximity and engaging in physical interactions with humans (pHRI). Likewise, contact-based pHRI is becoming increasingly common as robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Mohammad Farajtabar , Marie Charbonneau

Gestures are central to human communication, enriching interactions through non-verbal expression. Virtual avatars increasingly use AI-generated gestures to enhance life-likeness, yet evaluations have largely been confined to 2D. Virtual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Axel Wiebe Werner , Jonas Beskow , Anna Deichler

Providing users with accurate gestural interfaces, such as gesture recognition based on wrist-worn devices, is a key challenge in mixed reality. However, static machine learning processes in gesture recognition assume that training and test…

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Humans are able to convey different messages using only touch. Equipping robots with the ability to understand social touch adds another modality in which humans and robots can communicate. In this paper, we present a social gesture…

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In recent years, the demand for social robots has grown, requiring them to adapt their behaviors based on users' states. Accurately assessing user experience (UX) in human-robot interaction (HRI) is crucial for achieving this adaptability.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Ryo Miyoshi , Yuki Okafuji , Takuya Iwamoto , Junya Nakanishi , Jun Baba

Hand gesture recognition has been granted as one of the emerging fields in research today providing a natural way of communication between man and a machine. Gestures are some forms of body motions which a person expresses when doing a work…

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Communication in both human-human and human-robot interac-tion (HRI) contexts consists of verbal (speech-based) and non-verbal(facial expressions, eye gaze, gesture, body pose, etc.) components.The verbal component contains semantic and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Micol Spitale , Maja J Matarić

Gestures play a pivotal role in human communication, often serving as a preferred or complementary medium to verbal expression due to their superior spatial reference capabilities. A finger-pointing gesture conveys vital information…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Eran Bamani , Eden Nissinman , Lisa Koenigsberg , Inbar Meir , Yoav Matalon , Avishai Sintov

For some years now, the use of social, anthropomorphic robots in various situations has been on the rise. These are robots developed to interact with humans and are equipped with corresponding extremities. They already support human users…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Vignesh Prasad , Ruth Stock-Homburg , Jan Peters

As the use of Augmented Reality (AR) to enhance interactions between human agents and robotic systems in a work environment continues to grow, robots must communicate their intents in informative yet straightforward ways. This improves the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Chrisantus Eze , Christopher Crick

Dynamic hand gestures play a pivotal role in assistive human-robot interaction (HRI), facilitating intuitive, non-verbal communication, particularly for individuals with mobility constraints or those operating robots remotely. Current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Eran Bamani Beeri , Eden Nissinman , Avishai Sintov

Mixed Reality (MR) platforms enable users to interact with three-dimensional holographic instructions during the assembly and fabrication of highly custom and parametric architectural constructions without the necessity of two-dimensional…

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