Digital Human Modeling

Best Paper Award for the 2nd International Conference on Digital Human Modeling, in the context of HCI International 2009, 19-24 July 2009, San Diego, California, USA

Certificate for Best Paper Award of the
2nd International Conference on Digital Human Modeling
conferred to

Itaru Kuramoto (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
Yoshikazu Inagaki (Kyoto University of Education, Japan)
Yu Shibuya, Yoshihiro Tsujino (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)

for the paper entitled

"Augmented Practice Mirror: A Self-Learning Support System of Physical Motion with Real-time Comparison to Teacher's Model"

Presented in the context of HCI International 2009
San Diego, California, USA, 19-24 July 2009

Paper Abstract
"An effective way to learn some physical motions such as dancing, playing sports, making traditional crafts, and so on, is to mimic teacher’s motion. In this style of learning, it is important for the learner to recognize the difference between the teacher’s motion and his/her one. We propose Augmented Practice Mirror (APM) learning support system. APM shows the mirror image of learner’s motion overlapped teacher’s one, and the difference between them. These three images are shown simultaneously on a large screen as virtual mirror in real time. As a result of the experimental evaluations, it was found that APM was better in recognizing the difference between the participant’s motion and the teacher’s one than two common methods, and that the hybrid interface of voice recognition and gesture was better than the single interface of voice recognition or gesture for operating APM."

The full paper is available through SpringerLink, provided that you have proper access rights.