DESIGNING HAND GESTURE VOCABULARIES for NATURAL INTERACTION by COMBINING PSYCHO-PHYSIOLOGICAL and RECOGNITION FACTORS

International Journal of Semantic Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 137-160

  Stern, Helman I ^a   Wachs, Juan P ^b   Edan, Yael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Naval Postgraduate School   (United States)

Author keywords

comfort; gesture interfaces; hand gesture recognition; Hand gesture vocabulary design; human computer interaction; intuitiveness; learning; memory; multiobjective optimization; psycho physiological; semantic behavior

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; HEURISTIC METHODS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PALMPRINT RECOGNITION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

COMFORT; GESTURE INTERFACES; HAND GESTURE VOCABULARY DESIGNS; HAND-GESTURE RECOGNITION; INTUITIVENESS; LEARNING; PSYCHO-PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEMANTIC BEHAVIOR;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 79551697690     PISSN: 1793351X     EISSN: 17937108     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1793351X08000385     Document Type: Article

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