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Collaborative robotics requires effective communication between a robot and a human partner. This work proposes a set of interpretive principles for how a robotic arm can use pointing actions to communicate task information to people by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Malihe Alikhani , Baber Khalid , Rahul Shome , Chaitanya Mitash , Kostas Bekris , Matthew Stone

Unlike the six basic emotions of happiness, sadness, fear, anger, disgust and surprise, modelling and predicting dimensional affect in terms of valence (positivity - negativity) and arousal (intensity) has proven to be more flexible,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Chaudhary Muhammad Aqdus Ilyas , Siyang Song , Hatice Gunes

Pointing is a key mode of interaction with robots, yet most prior work has focused on recognition rather than generation. We present a motion capture dataset of human pointing gestures covering diverse styles, handedness, and spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Anna Deichler , Siyang Wang , Simon Alexanderson , Jonas Beskow

Collaborative robots became a popular tool for increasing productivity in partly automated manufacturing plants. Intuitive robot teaching methods are required to quickly and flexibly adapt the robot programs to new tasks. Gestures have an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Petr Vanc , Jan Kristof Behrens , Karla Stepanova

Gestures are inherent to human interaction and often complement speech in face-to-face communication, forming a multimodal communication system. An important task in gesture analysis is detecting a gesture's beginning and end. Research on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Esam Ghaleb , Ilya Burenko , Marlou Rasenberg , Wim Pouw , Ivan Toni , Peter Uhrig , Anna Wilson , Judith Holler , Aslı Özyürek , Raquel Fernández

With the growing technology, we humans always need something that stands out from the other thing. Gestures are most desirable source to Communicate with the Machines. Human Computer Interaction finds its importance when it comes to working…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-11-20 Sandeep Vasave , Amol Plave

Everyday object-based interactions (EOIs) and mid-air gesture interactions (MAIs) have been widely explored, yet prior work on their integration often targets narrow use cases or specific technologies, leaving designers and developers with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhuoyue Lyu , Per Ola Kristensson

This article explores the use of a location-aware mid-air gesture-based command triplet syntax to interact with a smart space. The syntax, inspired by human language, is built as a vocative case with an imperative structure. In a sentence…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Ana M. Bernardos , Xian Wang , Luca Bergesio , Juan A. Besada , José R. Casar

Interacting with data visualizations without an instrument or touch surface is typically characterized by the use of mid-air hand gestures. While mid-air expressions can be quite intuitive for interacting with digital content at a distance,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zona Kostic , Catherine Dumas , Sarah Pratt , Johanna Beyer

The emergence of several trends, including the increased availability of wireless networks, miniaturization of electronics and sensing technologies, and novel input and output devices, is creating a demand for integrated, full-time displays…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Jannick Rolland , Ozan Cakmakci , Jeff Covelli , Cali Fidopiastis , Florian Fournier , Ricardo Martins , Felix G. Hamza-Lup , Denise Nicholson

The main aim of the work presented here is to contribute to computer science advances in the multimodal usability area, in-as-much as it addresses one of the major issues relating to the generation of effective oral system messages: how to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2007-08-28 Suzanne Kieffer , Noëlle Carbonell

In the everyday context, e.g., a household, HMD users remain a part of the social life for Non-HMD users being co-located with them. Due to the social context situations arise that demand interaction between the HMD and the Non-HMD user. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Christian Mai , Alexander Knittel , Heinrich Hußmann

Social interactions often emerge from subtle, fine-grained cues such as facial expressions, gaze, and gestures. However, existing methods for social interaction detection overlook such nuanced cues and primarily rely on holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Dongkeun Kim , Minsu Cho , Suha Kwak

Think-Aloud Computing, a method for capturing users' verbalized thoughts during software tasks, allows eliciting rich contextual insights into evolving intentions, struggles, and decision-making processes of users in real-time. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Frederic Gmeiner , John Thompson , George Fitzmaurice , Justin Matejka

As eye-tracking becomes increasingly common in modern mobile devices, the potential for hands-free, gaze-based interaction grows, but current gesture sets are largely expert-designed and often misaligned with how users naturally move their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yaxiong Lei , Xinya Gong , Shijing He , Yafei Wang , Mohamed Khamis , Juan Ye

This study mainly explores the application of natural gesture recognition based on computer vision in human-computer interaction, aiming to improve the fluency and naturalness of human-computer interaction through gesture recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Fenghua Shao , Tong Zhang , Shang Gao , Qi Sun , Liuqingqing Yang

Situated visualization blends data into the real world to fulfill individuals' contextual information needs. However, interacting with situated visualization in public environments faces challenges posed by user acceptance and contextual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Qian Zhu , Zhuo Wang , Wei Zeng , Wai Tong , Weiyue Lin , Xiaojuan Ma

Shared artifacts and environments play a prominent role in shaping the collaboration between their users. This article describes this role and explains how annotations can provide a bridge between direct communication and collaboration…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2012-11-14 Syavash Nobarany

Collaborating in a group, whether face-to-face or virtually, involves continuously expressing emotions and interpreting those of other group members. Therefore, understanding group affect is essential to comprehending how groups interact…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Navin Raj Prabhu , Maria Tsfasman , Catharine Oertel , Timo Gerkmann , Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock

Human interactions are characterized by explicit as well as implicit channels of communication. While the explicit channel transmits overt messages, the implicit ones transmit hidden messages about the communicator (e.g., his/her intentions…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Katie Hoemann , Behnaz Rezaei , Stacy C. Marsella , Sarah Ostadabbas