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Tracking Deictic Gestures over Large Interactive Surfaces

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In a collaborative environment, non-verbal communication elements carry important contents. These contents are partially or completely lost in remote collaboration. This paper presents a system to address this issue by tracking pointing gestures, the main non-verbal communication element prevalent in such meetings. The setup employs a touchscreen tabletop computer system for representing the visual content of the meeting, together with three motion trackers for tracking the pointing gestures.

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This work was done within the project CR21I2L_138601 of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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Alavi, A., Kunz, A. Tracking Deictic Gestures over Large Interactive Surfaces. Comput Supported Coop Work 24, 109–119 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-015-9219-4

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