User-Friendly Interaction/Interface Control of Intelligent Home for Movement-Disabled People

摘要

This paper comments some aspects of the project "Intelligent Sweet Home" that is primarily focused on development of control strategies and human-machine interaction in the smart house for assisting aged people and persons with disabilities. In our study, we propose a conception for control of the robot and home appliances by predefined hand gestures remotely sensed by ceilingmounted CCD cameras. Pointing at the equipments by his/her hand, user can select the device that should be controlled. Then, by gesturing and changing the hand posture, user sets the operation that should be executed. The approach complements the inconvenience of the conventional remote controllers giving additional freedom to persons with movement deficits and people without disabilities.