Exploring the design space of programming by demonstration with context aware assistive systems
Hoppe, Matthias · OPUS Publication Server of the University of Stuttgart (University of Stuttgart) · 2014
Due to the recent development in head-mounted displays, projection systems, rising capabilities of Augmented Reality and availability of Kinect for depth images, the advance of assistive systems in industrial context began. We propose a system that not only provides methods to assist industrial workers in their everyday tasks by assisting and providing instructions and giving feedback about the executed tasks. But although present a system that provides the capability to record and therefore create instructions by demonstration. This tackles the problem of current assistive systems and the complexity editors that are used for creating these instructions. We conducted a study that involved the creating of instruction via different conditions that were performed by experts in the field of manual assembly. Furthermore we verified these instruction with 51 industrial workers that completed assembly tasks guided by the instruction. Our results indicated that interactive instructions created through Programming by Demonstration are equal to existing approaches. Additional qualitative feedback showed that instructions through Programming by Demonstration are generally well perceived.