Interactive Presentation of Information for Shopping Assistance in Intelligent Space

Studies to make space intelligent for human activity support are widely done. There are various applications of it. For example, there are applications such as cooking assist and language learning assist. However, at retail shops, even though sensors such as cameras are installed for crime prevention, application of making space intelligent has not been applied yet. Since the economy is revitalized by increasing the sales of retail stores, a system that increases sales is developed in this study. Current presentation methods of information about products at retail stores are implicit, and they are not effective due to spatial restriction. To solve this problem, we developed a system that presents information to customers effectively by making space inside retail store intelligent. By observing and evaluating the positions of customers in a store, the motion to pick up the products on the shelves, gazes and movement information of the customers, information which the customers are interested in is presented at the effective timing. From the results of the evaluation experiments of the developed system, it was shown that our system was possible to present appropriate information to customers in real time.