SVAGBOX
System for touchless interaction

The evolution of human-machine interaction has remained in a provisional state from the beginnings of the mouse and keyboard input to the established input methods by now. However, humans still have to adapt themselves to the computer and adjust their behavior to the technical given circumstances. This work reveals how we communicate with technology in general and introduces an applied vision and technique for interacting with the computer more intuitively to converge to the overall maxim for an coequal human-machine interaction.

SVAGBOX is an integrated touchless operation system (OS), which allows to interact with multimedia content such as video, pictures, text and music but also with more complex applications. This is made possible by using a distinct graphical user interface and a user experience concept for navigating interactive applications with human motion and human spoken language alone. SVAGBOX is a fully developed unit of software and hardware, but it is also configurable and extensible as a software solution for using it independently in different environments and hardware settings.

The integrated solution consists of an all-in-one hardware (processor unit, display, camera) and eight basic applications for touchless interaction. For use in multiple scenarios, there are two versions of the system: SVGABOX is the large version to establish a one-to-one situation of user and application, whereas SVGBX is a more compact hardware implementation but with the same functionality.

Channels

With the eight software applications — the so called channels — users can watch and play media files, interact with 3D data or capture video and photos. Furthermore, there is a channel for viewing and working with maps, a presentation mode and a sketch function. With the so called utilities, every channel can be modified and extended with various interaction and editor modules.