APPLICATION OF HUMANOID AVATARS IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS

摘要

With the increasing use of color TFT monitors in machine and process controllers, the possibilities of interaction and visualization have changed considerably. On the same side modern production systems are getting more and more complex and a huge amount of information has to be visualized on the user interface. Over the last years a new form of interaction came up. Virtual human-like characters so called avatars have been developed which will interact with the real user in a human-like form. To investigate the usefulness of avatars in industrial applications, a concept for visualization of information through different kinds of avatars will be presented. The specific character of a single avatar varies depending on the specific information to be presented e.g. help information or alarm messages.