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Towards a Hand-Based Gestural Language for Smart-Home Control Using Hand Shapes and Dynamic Hand Movements

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Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Personalisation and User Adapted Services (UCAmI 2014)

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Abstract

The application of gestural application can vary a lot: from a simple pointing mechanism to a visual sign language. Application of gestural interaction as a sign language with a proper formalism to interact with the technology has not been studied much. In this work, we present our Kinect-based gesture recognition system that is able to recognize personalized hand shapes and dynamic hand movements. We then describe how we created a “language” for smart-home control based on a specific syntax over sequences of hand shapes and hand movements.

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  1. DEIB - Politecnico di Milano - Polo Regionale di Como, Via Ponzio 34/5, 22100, Milan, Italy

    Hassan Saidinejad, Fabio Veronese, Sara Comai & Fabio Salice

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  1. Hassan Saidinejad
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  2. Fabio Veronese
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  1. Escuela Superior de Informática, Castilla Ly Mancha University, Paseo de la Universidad 4, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Ramón Hervás

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Seocheon-dong, Giheung-gu, 446-701, Yongin-si, Gyeongi-do, Korea

    Sungyoung Lee

  3. Computer Science Research Institute, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Jordanstown Campus, Shore Road, BT37 0QB, Newtownabbey, UK

    Chris Nugent

  4. Escuela Superior de Informática, Castilla La Mancha University, Paseo de la Universidad 4, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain

    José Bravo

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Saidinejad, H., Veronese, F., Comai, S., Salice, F. (2014). Towards a Hand-Based Gestural Language for Smart-Home Control Using Hand Shapes and Dynamic Hand Movements. In: Hervás, R., Lee, S., Nugent, C., Bravo, J. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Personalisation and User Adapted Services. UCAmI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8867. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13102-3_44

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