What if you make your webcam a human eye design?

You may have felt anxious because you thought the webcam was looking at you. For this reason, in these days when laptops are powered off or taped and video calls have increased, webcams are also physically buttoned.

Eyecam is an anthropomorphic webcam. Making webcams like human eyes. The reason for the development of iCam is to eliminate the clumsy consciousness of video conferences such as Zoom and Skype. By attaching sensors and servos around the camera and connecting the Arduino Nano motor movement to the PC with Raspberry Pi Zero, it is explained that a more human connection can be felt by attaching a silicone artificial skin. However, it is unclear whether favorable feelings for video conferencing will arise.

ICAM is expected to participate in the conference scheduled for May (ACM CHI 2021 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems). ICAM was created by a researcher at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCI Lab) at the University of Saarland, Germany. Icam files are also available on GitHub, so you can create your own. Related information can be found here.