Masaki Izumo, Yu Shibuya: Detecting Degree of People Gathering in a Laboratory Shared Space Aiming to Support Communication Start Smoothly, Porc. STSS/ISOFIC/ISSNP 2021, 2 pages (2021).
In order to initiate interaction or communication smoothly, we propose a system to detect the degree of gathering of people in a shared space. In the proposed system, an infrared array sensor is used to detect the degree of gathering. The results of the experiment showed that the proposed system was affected by the user’s posture and their overlapping then there was a case that the number of people was not detected correctly. In order to reduce the influence of the user’s posture and overlapping, it might be an idea to use the not only current temperature but also past ones too.
