A System for Operating Home Appliances with Hand Positioning in a User-definable Command Space

In this paper, a novel system that operates home appliances at arbitrary positions in a room is proposed based on a command space associated with the operation of the home appliance. In the proposed system, a hand positioning gesture is used to operate home appliances. By installing a user-definable command space, it is possible to operate home appliances freely in an arbitrary place chosen by the user. Experiments were conducted to verify the operational accuracy and operation time for commands using the proposed system for detailed operations such as TV channel switching.