TY - GEN
T1 - Emoballoon
T2 - 10th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment, ACE 2013
AU - Nakajima, Kosuke
AU - Itoh, Yuichi
AU - Hayashi, Yusuke
AU - Ikeda, Kazuaki
AU - Fujita, Kazuyuki
AU - Onoye, Takao
PY - 2013/12/1
Y1 - 2013/12/1
N2 - People often communicate with others using social touch interactions including hugging, rubbing, and punching. We propose a soft social-touchable interface called "Emoballoon" that can recognize the types of social touch interactions. The proposed interface consists of a balloon and some sensors including a barometric pressure sensor inside of a balloon, and has a soft surface and ability to detect the force of the touch input. We construct the prototype of Emoballoon using a simple configuration based on the features of a balloon, and evaluate the implemented prototype. The evaluation indicates that our implementation can distinguish seven types of touch interactions with 83.5% accuracy. Finally, we discuss possibilities and future applications of the balloon-made interface.
AB - People often communicate with others using social touch interactions including hugging, rubbing, and punching. We propose a soft social-touchable interface called "Emoballoon" that can recognize the types of social touch interactions. The proposed interface consists of a balloon and some sensors including a barometric pressure sensor inside of a balloon, and has a soft surface and ability to detect the force of the touch input. We construct the prototype of Emoballoon using a simple configuration based on the features of a balloon, and evaluate the implemented prototype. The evaluation indicates that our implementation can distinguish seven types of touch interactions with 83.5% accuracy. Finally, we discuss possibilities and future applications of the balloon-made interface.
KW - Gesture recognition
KW - Social touch interaction
KW - Soft interface
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-03161-3_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-03161-3_13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893956639
SN - 9783319031606
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 182
EP - 197
BT - Advances in Computer Entertainment - 10th International Conference, ACE 2013, Proceedings
Y2 - 12 November 2013 through 15 November 2013
ER -