BlinkBot - Look at, Blink and Move

Pranav Mistry, Kentaro Ishii, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi

Abstract

We present BlinkBot - a hands free input interface to control and command a robot. BlinkBot explores the natural modality of gaze and blink to direct a robot to move an object from a location to another. A laser on a wearable controller tells where the user is looking, and a ceiling camera detects the laser. A photoreflector on the controller detects intentional blinks, while the sensor does not respond to natural blinks.

Publication

Pranav Mistry, Kentaro Ishii, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi.
BlinkBot - Look at, Blink and Move.
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST2010, Demonstrations, pp.397-398. DOI=10.1145/1866218.1866238
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