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Human support improvements by natural man-machine collaboration

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In this paper, we propose a novel framework that improves the recognition performance of human support systems, and then discuss why our framework is Human-Centered. A Human-Centered system should have a high recognition ability with minimum burden on the user. Our framework aims to satisfy this requirement by using an artificial agent between a recognition system and the user. If a system is in a difficult situation concerning recognition, an agent will require the user's help. For example, if an object that a system aims to recognize is hidden by the user's hand, the agent will ask the user to move his/her hand. Based on this idea, we implemented a prototype system with two modules: a recognition module to recognize objects and user's motions and an agent module to ask for a user's cooperative action. In the experiment, our prototype system recovers around 50%-70% of the recognition failures caused by three typical difficult situations. The user study reveals that our prototype system has the potential to realize natural and considerate human support systems.

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cover image ACM Conferences
HCM '07: Proceedings of the international workshop on Human-centered multimedia
September 2007
112 pages
ISBN:9781595937810
DOI:10.1145/1290128
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  1. human-centered computing
  2. interactive system

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MM07: The 15th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2007
September 28, 2007
Bavaria, Augsburg, Germany

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