Non-conventional interfaces for human-system interaction in nuclear plants' virtual simulations

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 59, Issue , 2012, Pages 33-43

  Aghina, Maurício Alves C ^a,c   Mól, Antônio Carlos A ^a,b,d   Jorge, Carlos Alexandre F ^a,c   Freitas, Victor Gonçalves G ^a,d   Pereira, Cláudio M N A ^a   Lapa, Celso M F ^a,b   Nomiya, Diogo V ^c   Espírito Santo, André C ^a   Landau, Luiz ^c   Cunha, Gerson G ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA NUCLEAR   (Brazil)

^b Inst Nac de Cie e Tecnologia de Reatores Nucleares Inovadores CNPq   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d GAMA FILHO UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Face tracking; Non conventional interfaces; Nuclear plants; Speech recognition; Virtual control desk; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

COMMAND RECOGNITION; FACE TRACKING; HUMAN SYSTEM INTERFACE; HUMAN-SYSTEM INTERACTION; MULTI-USER; NAVIGATION IN VIRTUAL EN-VIRONMENTS; NUCLEAR PLANT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; VIRTUAL CONTROL; VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY; VIRTUAL SIMULATIONS;

ERGONOMICS; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84860222837     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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