A survey of glove-based systems and their applications

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 461-482

  Dipietro, Laura ^a,b   Sabatini, Angeloi M ^a   Dario, Paolo ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Gestures recognition; Man machine interfaces; Wearable sensors

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MAPS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; SURVEYS; TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

(OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; APPLIED (CO); BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES; CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES; DIVERSE FIELDS; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; EVOLUTION (CO); HAND MOVEMENTS; READERS (USER EXPERIENCE); ROAD MAPS; SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY;

APPLICATIONS;

EID: 46849097984     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2008.923862     Document Type: Article

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