Human communication always used gestures, movements and expressions as oral language support. Certain gestures are so commonly used around the world that are understood throughout different cultures and times, such as a wave or thumbs up. Natural Interaction is a way to apply this concept to user interfaces in computer systems. In this paper we discuss about the use of Natural Interaction featu...

Effective on-line communication between cooperating users with the mediation of machines (Virtual Team concept) is a necessity in new-generation concurrent engineering design and manufacture systems. The communication means for solving this problem are natural language and graphics. Managing the graphical and natural language user interfaces is a task full of ill-structured problems for which t...

Access to the published version may require subscription. Abstract Mobile Robotic Telepresence (MRP) helps people to communicate in natural ways despite being physically located in different parts of the world. User interfaces of such systems are as critical as the design and functionality of the robot itself for creating conditions for natural interaction. This article presents an exploratory ...

The purpose of this paper is to motivate the need for modelling Contact and Perception feedback in Natural language user interfaces for Human-Robot Interaction. In a scenario where the user and the robot are co-present contact and perception feedback will increase the situational awareness of the user. One component of a such a model could be a kind of low-level user model aiming to decide the ...

The development of natural language front-ends to applications traditionally requires robust lexicons and grammars containing both syntactic and semantic information to process users' queries. However, by developing an interface to a database in which natural language is combined with other input modalities, it is possible to simplify the natural language processing module. We introduce the con...

Mouse, keyboard and graphical user interfaces are commonly used in the field of human-robot interaction (HRI) for robot control. Although these traditional user interfaces are being accepted as the standard for the majority of computational tasks, their generic natural and interaction styles may not fit well with robot navigation tasks. In our proposed research, we intend to explore alternative...

Purpose Despite the technological paradigm shift presented to architecture, engineering, construction and operations sector (AECO), full-fledged acceptance of building information modelling (BIM) methodology has been slower than initially anticipated. Indeed, this study aims acknowledge need for increasing supportive technologies enabling use BIM, attending available human resources, their requ...

The adjustment of multidimensional abstract parameter spaces, used in human-in-the-loop systems such as simulations and visualizations, plays an important role for multitouch interaction. We investigate new natural forms of interaction to manipulate such parameter spaces. We develop separable multi-touch interaction techniques for abstract parameter space manipulation. We investigate using the ...

For some time, graphical user interfaces (GUIs) have been the dominant platform for human computer interaction. The GUI-based style of interaction has made computers simpler and easier to use, especially for office productivity applications. However, as the way we use computers changes and computing becomes more pervasive and ubiquitous, GUIs will not easily support the range of interactions ne...