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A universal remote control for many different technical devices in the living environment - which should be very easy, almost intuitively to use - would be most desirable, especially for elderly and mobility-impaired persons. For this purpose, a flashlight-like handheld infrared gesture-controlled remote we call SmartPointer is being developed and evaluated. Carrying out a mid-air gesture with the SmartPointer moves the irradiated beam of structured IR light across a receiver box near the device, which detects the light pattern’s trajectory and converts the identified gesture into device-specific commands. In our laboratory study, the user experience of the SmartPointer system and its gesture recognition capabilities were examined with a group of 29 elderly volunteers who were asked to repeatedly carry out quasi-intuitive gestures with the SmartPointer to operate four typical home appliances: light switch (on/off), heating device (warmer/colder), blinds (up/down) and door (lock/unlock). Applying adaptive rule-based signal processing and pattern recognition, an overall recognition rate of 94.3% could be achieved so far.
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This work was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the SME-Innovative Human-Technology Interaction Program. We thank the project partners A. Kaltenbach, S. Tischler and L. Mechold of Laser Components GmbH, Olching, and F. Obée, F. Piela and the team of August & Piela Konstruktiv GbR, Berlin, for the hardware development of the SmartPointer system.
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Ruser, H., Vorwerg, S., Eicher, C. (2020). Making the Home Accessible - Experiments with an Infrared Handheld Gesture-Based Remote Control. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M. (eds) HCI International 2020 - Posters. HCII 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1226. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50732-9_13
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