Application Of Low-Cost Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Products In The Development Of Human-Robot Interactions

In the effort of developing sensible ways for interaction between humans and automated equipment the use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products is shown to be fruitful in the learning process. The development in the field of consumer electronics has lead to increasingly more elaborate facilities for interaction with the human user. Modern cell phones and game technology are typical representatives of this trend. In this work such equipment has been explored in the aim to achieve easy and natural interfaces between humans and