Personalised product design using virtual interactive techniques

摘要

Use of Virtual Interactive Techniques for personalized product design isdescribed in this paper. Usually products are designed and built by consideringgeneral usage patterns and Prototyping is used to mimic the static or workingbehaviour of an actual product before manufacturing the product. The user doesnot have any control on the design of the product. Personalized designpostpones design to a later stage. It allows for personalized selection ofindividual components by the user. This is implemented by displaying theindividual components over a physical model constructed using Cardboard orThermocol in the actual size and shape of the original product. The componentsof the equipment or product such as screen, buttons etc. are then projectedusing a projector connected to the computer into the physical model. Users caninteract with the prototype like the original working equipment and they canselect, shape, position the individual components displayed on the interactionpanel using simple hand gestures. Computer Vision techniques as well as soundprocessing techniques are used to detect and recognize the user gesturescaptured using a web camera and microphone.