Evaluations of Interactive Guideboard with Gaze-communicative Stuffed-toy Robot

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce and evaluate an interactive guideboard with a communicative stuffed-toy guide-robot that behaves in correspondence to the user’s gazing direction. The proposed system adopts our remote gaze-tracking method, which estimates the user’s gaze angles based on image processing. The main purpose of this research is to provide intuitive and natural guidance interaction through