Synchronous Gestures in Multi-Display Environments

2008

holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Royal Military College of Canada and an MSc in Aerospace Engineering from Carleton University. His doctoral studies involved the development of a GPSbased takeoff performance monitor at the University of Saskatchewan. He is a former Lieutenant in the Canadian Forces. It is an impossible task to bring together, under a single cover, the many facets of humancomputer interaction. After all, we have come a long way in the past several decades, to a point where we consider not only what may be intuitive to the designer, but rather the user, the environment, and the intent of our efforts. No single person can claim expertise across the entire field, which now brings together professions that formerly did not share the same vocabulary and still, in many cases, do not share the same philosophy. It is only appropriate that the study of human-machine interaction reveals a greater complexity within humanto-human interaction. In these 34 chapters, we survey the broad disciplines that loosely inhabit the study and practice of human-computer interaction. Our authors are passionate advocates of innovative applications, novel approaches, and modern advances in this exciting and developing field. It is our wish that the reader consider not only what our authors have written and the experimentation they have described, but also the examples they have set. This book brings together the work of experts around the world who have used their expertise to overcome barriers in language, culture, and abilities, to name only a few challenges. The editors would like to thank the authors, who have committed so much effort to the publication of this work.

We present a classification of gesture-based computer interactions motivated by a literature review of over 40 years of gesture based interactions. This work presents a unique perspective on gesturebased interactions, categorized in terms of four key elements: gesture styles, the application domains they are applied to, input technologies and output technologies used for implementation. The classification provides a means of addressing gestures as an interaction mode across the different application domains so that researchers and designers can draw on the vast amount of research that has been addressed within the literature from an interaction perspective.

2006

Multimedia Tools and Applications

The unceasing advances of technology as well as the pervasiveness of an increasing number of devices providing a variety of capabilities in intelligent environments are urging innovative and advanced interaction techniques. The aim is offering users ubiquitous, transparent, and natural interaction patterns in different settings, as an essential part of a new way of interpreting the relationship between humans and technology. In particular, a plethora of ubiquitous and pervasive devices and their embedded sensors provide new, and sometimes unforeseen, multimedia and multimodal support to build intelligent smart environments. The papers selected for the first part of this Special Issue outline some recent trends, in particular in the area of multimedia/multimodal applications. Some of these papers are the revised and extended versions of invited selected papers presented at the CHItaly 2017 conference, the biannual conference of the Italian Chapter of ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). They are representative of the work by researchers and practitioners in the Italian HCI community. Among the issues addressed in this first part, it is possible to mention the challenges associated with hand gesture recognition, and those raised Multimedia Tools and Applications

We present a classification of gesture-based computer interactions motivated by a literature review of over 40 years of gesture based interactions. This work presents a unique perspective on gesturebased interactions, categorized in terms of four key elements: gesture styles, the application domains they are applied to, input technologies and output technologies used for implementation. The classification provides a means of addressing gestures as an interaction mode across the different application domains so that researchers and designers can draw on the vast amount of research that has been addressed within the literature from an interaction perspective.

Eindhoven. Like all parts of the master program, it required a lot of effort, but I enjoyed working on every part of it. I would like to thank all staff and students of the HTI department for this experience. Specially, I would like to thank my supervisors Raymond Cuijpers, Wijnand IJsselsteijn, and Maurice van Beurden of the HTI-group for their support, enthusiasm, and sometimes patients. In addition, I would like to thank John the Vet for the opportunity to perform this graduation project in cooperation with the BG TV Site Eindhoven of Philips Consumer Lifestyle.

International Journal of Engineering Applied Sciences and Technology

Since its emergence, Human Computer Interaction(HCI) has risen as a field of study for a powerful collaboration between user and computers. This paper exhibits an understanding of the idea of human computer collaboration. Also, we present a briefing of evolution of HCI and how gestures provide a reliable means of interaction to facilitilate an increasingly natural technique for interacting with our computers. This paper gives an overview of existing writing in regards to gesture recognition for communication between a human and computer by classifying it as per hand motions and eye motions. The usage of motions as a characteristic interface attracts the consideration for research in novel strategies. Further, study of noteworthy studies in vision based systems is additionally discussed about. The key purpose of this paper is to depict the usefulness of human computer interaction and to exhibit a rundown of progress accomplished till date which can further enhance the current gesture recognition systems for future direction.

This paper presents a review of the history of Gesture controlled user interface (GCUI), and identifies trends in technology, application and usability. Our findings conclude that GCUI now affords realistic opportunities for specific application areas, and especially for users who are uncomfortable with more commonly used input devices. We have tried collated chronographic research information which covers the past 30 years. We investigated different types of gestures, its users, applications, technology, issues addressed, results and interfaces from existing research. We consider the next direction of gesture controlled user interfaces as rich user interface using gestures seems appropriate for current and future ubiquitous and ambient devices. This paper also provides a research background for gesture controlled research for elderly or disabled people.

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Human Computer Interaction Computational Science and Engineering Master thesis 1-year level, 15 credits Master thesis 1-year level, 15 credits SPM 2011.01 SPM 2011.01 Abstract Currently there exists an advanced and natural form of interaction, named gesture-based interaction. It has been applied in some fields successfully, especially in the form of game applications. Although people are filled with wonder at the new interaction, it has not replaced the traditional interaction, like keyboard and mouse. From the user experience point of view, gesture-based interaction has advantages which traditional interactive form cannot offer, but also shortcomings which people seem dissatisfied with. This thesis focuses on expressing user experience of gesture-based interaction by conducting interview method. Finally, this paper presents a new design and tries to find implications for its practical usage in the future.