Project Info
Large Scale Referential Gesture
Tom Williams
twilliams@mines.edu
Project Goals and Description:
When humans use gestures to refer to objects and locations, they use a wide range of different types of referential gestures. In this project we seek to explore how robots can be designed to use this wide range of gestures, both through current robot arms, and with augmented reality technologies. The student working on this project will help to prototype gestures using these technologies and evaluate them through human-subject experiments.
More Information:
Grand Challenge: Reverse-engineer the brain.
https://mirrorlab.mines.edu/publications/huang2024hri/
https://mirrorlab.mines.edu/publications/higger2023semdial/
https://mirrorlab.mines.edu/publications/walker2022corr/
https://mirrorlab.mines.edu/publications/brown2022thri/
Primary Contacts:
Mark Higger, mhigger@mines.edu |Tom Williams, twilliams@mines.edu
Student Preparation
Qualifications
Experience working with interactive robots and/or with augmented reality.
TIME COMMITMENT (HRS/WK)
10
SKILLS/TECHNIQUES GAINED
Gesture design, experimental design, data analysis, paper writing, presentation
MENTORING PLAN
Students will meet on a weekly basis with Dr. Williams or with a graduate student Mentor.
Preferred Student Status
Sophomore
Junior
Senior