Thanks to technological advancements, Whole-Body Natural User Interfaces (WB-NUI) are becoming increasingly common in North American homes and public spaces. However, because WB-NUIs lack obvious affordances, users can be unsure how to control the interface. We are presenting a research design for an upcoming study to be completed in the summer of 2014. By studying users mock controlling a WB-N...

The increasing popularity of robotics in modern society makes interacting and communicating with them of critical importance. Although one of the main goals in robotics research is to develop fully autonomous systems, the ability to control robots in teleoperation applications and provide guidance to them for semiautonomous tasks in a natural and intuitive way is still an important research goa...

Serious games based rehabilitation program needs a comprehensive and people-centred design for a better efficacy. In most studies benchmarking the computer-interaction interfaces is a prerequisite for adjusting the most appropriate user input for the rehabilitation application. The present study examines a comparison between three natural user interfaces and two standard computer interfaces in ...

People are striving for easy, natural interfaces. Robotic user interfaces aim at providing this kind of interface by using human like interaction modalities. However, many applications fail, not because of fundamental problems of addressing social interaction but due to an unbalanced design. In this paper we derive a balancing framework for designing robotic user interfaces that balances four k...

Human–machine-interaction studies complex communication and interaction principles between people and computers. HMI research is concerned with a wide field of related topcis covering the realisation, evaluation of interactive machine and computing systems. It furthermore covers knowledge representation, displaying techniques, signal processing, pattern recognition, human factors, haptics and r...