Perceptual Computing

Kevin Homaizad

Background

• Control of a device with:• Voice Recognition• Facial Recognition• Precise Muscle Movement Recognition*

• No Physical Touch

*http://wordpress.rowan.edu/virtechgo/?p=2007

Cell PhonesSmartphone Users in the United States

Year Number of Users (millions)

2010 62.6

2011 92.8

2012 121.4

2013 140

Cell Phones• Smart Scroll

• Facial Recognition

• Eye Tracking

Transportation• Volume control

• Hand Motion Driving

• Smart Insect*

*http://www.autoblog.com/2012/10/04/toyota-smart-insect-city-car-concept-makes-the-connection/

Computers

• Interaction with camera

Computers

• MYO Bluetooth Armband

• Can go beyond strictly what a camera can read.

Future

• Intel Perceptual Computing Challenge

Works Cited• Eadicicco, Lisa. MYO Arm Band Controls Your Laptop and Smartphone With

Gestures. 24 June 2013. 2013 http://blog.laptopmag.com/myo-arm-band-laptop-gestures.

• Farber, Dan. "Intel creates $100 million fund for perceptual computing." 4 June 2013. Cnet. 2013 <http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57587699-76/intel-creates-$100-million-fund-for-perceptual-computing/>.

• "Forecast: Number of Smartphone Users in the U.S. 2010-2017." May 2013. Statista. http://www.statista.com/statistics/201182/forecast-of-smartphone-users-in-the-us/.

• Rogers, Christina. Future Driving: Controlling a Car with a Wave of the Hand. 28 November 2012. 2013 <http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2012/11/28/future-driving-controlling-a-car-with-a-wave-of-the-hand/>.

• http://www.autoblog.com/2012/10/04/toyota-smart-insect-city-car-concept-makes-the-connection/

• http://wordpress.rowan.edu/virtechgo/?p=2007