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A Gesture Based In terface for Human-Rob ot In teraction Stefan W aldherr Computer Scienc e Dep artment Carne gie Mel lon University Pittsbur gh, P A, USA Roseli Romero Instituto de Ci ^ encias Matem atic as e de Computa c~ ao Universidad edeS~ ao Paulo S~ ao Carlos, SP, Br azil Sebastian Thrun Computer Scienc e Dep artment Carne gie Mel lon University Pittsbur gh, P A, USA Abstract. Service rob otics is curren tly a piv otal researc h area in rob otics, with enormous so cietal p oten tial. Since service rob ots directly in teract with p eople, nding \natu- ral and easy-to-use user in terfaces is of fundamen tal imp ortance. While past w ork has predominately fo cussed on issues suc hasna vigation and manipulatio n, relativ ely few