Unconstrained neck: Omnidirectional observation from an extra robotic neck

Lichao Shen; Yamen Saraji; Kai Steven Kunze; Kouta Minamizawa

doi:10.1145/3174910.3174955

Unconstrained neck: Omnidirectional observation from an extra robotic neck

Lichao Shen, Yamen Saraji, Kai Steven Kunze, Kouta Minamizawa

Graduate School of Media Design

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Abstract

Humans are born with physiological limitations in terms of the sensory and motor abilities. Due to the narrow range of motion of the neck and the small visual field of the eyes, the human visual sense is limited in terms of the spatial range.We address this visual limitation by proposing a programmable neck that can leverage the range of motion limits. Unconstrained Neck, a head-mounted robotic neck, is a substitution neck system which provides a wider range of motion enabling humans to overcome the physical constraints of the neck. Using this robotic neck, it is possible to control the visual/motor gain which allows the user to thus control the range and speed of his effective neck motion or visual motion.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 9th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2018
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Volume	Part F134484
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450354158
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3174910.3174955
Publication status	Published - 2018 Feb 6
Event	9th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2018 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 2018 Feb 7 → 2018 Feb 9

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Other	9th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2018
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	18/2/7 → 18/2/9

Keywords

Biomimetics
Human augmentation
Robotic neck
Vision expansion

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Software

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Shen, L, Saraji, Y, Kunze, KS & Minamizawa, K 2018, Unconstrained neck: Omnidirectional observation from an extra robotic neck. in Proceedings of the 9th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2018. vol. Part F134484, a38, Association for Computing Machinery, 9th Augmented Human International Conference, AH 2018, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 18/2/7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3174910.3174955

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