Spiderhand: Towards Quasi-Direct Interaction with Unpleasant Creatures Using Muscle-controlled Robotic Arm

Mikołaj Woźniak; Julia Dominiak; Maya Malaya; Piotr Łuczak; Krzysztof Grudzień; Andrzej Romanowski; Zbigniew Chaniecki; Paweł W. Woźniak

doi:10.1145/3341162.3343832

Spiderhand: Towards Quasi-Direct Interaction with Unpleasant Creatures Using Muscle-controlled Robotic Arm

Mikołaj Woźniak, Julia Dominiak, Maya Malaya, Piotr Łuczak, Krzysztof Grudzień, Andrzej Romanowski, Zbigniew Chaniecki, Paweł W. Woźniak

Lodz University of Technology

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Abstract

Although encounters with spiders are commonplace for people almost everywhere in the world, fear of spiders is one of the most frequently diagnosed phobias and immediate contact is widely perceived as unfavourable. We present a system for indirect, quasi-tangible interaction with spiders, to be applied in an exhibition context - a robotic arm, steered through gestural input, which mimics user’s actions and enables indirect physical interaction with the spider. The proof-of-concept prototype has been tested with N=15 users in museum-like environment. The concept of implementing an interactive modality to the exhibition was commented as an asset in terms amusement and education aiding, whilst being also a promising endeavour towards phobia-overcoming exercise.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UbiComp/ISWC 2019- - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	230-233
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450368698
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3341162.3343832
Publication status	Published - 9 Sept 2019
Event	2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2019 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 9 Sept 2019 → 13 Sept 2019

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Conference	2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	9/09/19 → 13/09/19

Keywords

Gestural input
Gestural interaction
Interactive robotics
Museum displays

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Woźniak, M., Dominiak, J., Malaya, M., Łuczak, P., Grudzień, K., Romanowski, A., Chaniecki, Z., & Woźniak, P. W. (2019). Spiderhand: Towards Quasi-Direct Interaction with Unpleasant Creatures Using Muscle-controlled Robotic Arm. In UbiComp/ISWC 2019- - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 230-233). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3341162.3343832

Woźniak, Mikołaj ; Dominiak, Julia ; Malaya, Maya et al. / Spiderhand : Towards Quasi-Direct Interaction with Unpleasant Creatures Using Muscle-controlled Robotic Arm. UbiComp/ISWC 2019- - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. pp. 230-233

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Spiderhand: Towards Quasi-Direct Interaction with Unpleasant Creatures Using Muscle-controlled Robotic Arm. / Woźniak, Mikołaj; Dominiak, Julia; Malaya, Maya et al.
UbiComp/ISWC 2019- - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. p. 230-233.

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