Office activity recognition using hand posture cues

Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction, BCS HCI 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 75-78

  Paulson, Brandon ^a   Hammond, Tracy ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity recognition; Context aware; CyberGlove; Hand posture; Office environment; Wearable computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY;

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; CONTEXT-AWARE; CYBERGLOVE; HAND POSTURE; OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS; WEARABLE COMPUTING;

PALMPRINT RECOGNITION;

EID: 78649749182     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2008.37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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