Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation

by Sales Dias, Miguel; Gibert, Sylvie; Wanderley, Marcelo M.; Bastos, Rafael

• ISBN13: 9783540928645
• ISBN10: 3540928642
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, GW 2007, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in May 2007.The 31 revised papers presented were carefully selected from 53 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on analysis and synthesis of gesture; theoretical aspects of gestural communication and interaction; vision-based gesture recognition; sign language processing; gesturing with tangible interfaces and in virtual and augmented reality; gesture for music and performing arts; gesture for therapy and rehabilitation; and gesture in Mobile computing and usability studies.

Table of Contents

Analysis and Synthesis of Gesture
Gesture Recognition Based on Elastic Deformation Energies	p. 1
Approximation of Curvature and Velocity for Gesture Segmentation and Synthesis	p. 13
Motion Primitives and Probabilistic Edit Distance for Action Recognition	p. 24
Theoretical Aspects of Gestural Communication and Interaction
On the Parametrization of Clapping	p. 36
Improving the Believability of Virtual Characters Using Qualitative Gesture Analysis	p. 48
A Method for Selection of Optimal Hand Gesture Vocabularies	p. 57
Vision-Based Gesture Recognition
Person-Independent 3D Sign Language Recognition	p. 69
Skin Color Profile Capture for Scale and Rotation Invariant Hand Gesture Recognition	p. 81
Robust Tracking for Processing of Videos of Communication's Gesture	p. 93
Representation of Human Postures for Vision-Based Gesture Recognition in Real-Time	p. 102
Enhancing a Sign Language Translation System with Vision-Based Features	p. 108
Sign Language Processing
Generating Data for Signer Adaptation	p. 114
A Qualitative and Quantitative Characterisation of Style in Sign Language Gestures	p. 122
Sequential Belief-Based Fusion of Manual and Non-manual Information for Recognizing Isolated Signs	p. 134
Gesture Modelling for Linguistic Purposes	p. 145
Gesturing with Tangible Interfaces and in Virtual and Augmented Reality
Automatic Classification of Expressive Hand Gestures on Tangible Acoustic Interfaces According to Laban's Theory of Effort	p. 151
Implementing Distinctive Behavior for Conversational Agents	p. 163
Using Hand Gesture and Speech in a Multimodal Augmented Reality Environment	p. 175
A Virtual Reality-Based Framework for Experiments on Perception of Manual Gestures	p. 181
Processing Iconic Gestures in a Multimodal Virtual Construction Environment	p. 187
Analysis of Emotional Gestures for the Generation of Expressive Copying Behaviour in an Embodied Agent	p. 193
Gestures to Intuitively Control Large Displays	p. 199
Gesture for Music and Performing Arts
Geometry and Effort in Gestural Renderings of Musical Sound	p. 205
String Bowing Gestures at Varying Bow Stroke Frequencies: A Case Study	p. 216
Gesture Control of Sound Spatialization for Live Musical Performance	p. 227
Validation of an Algorithm for Segmentation of Full-Body Movement Sequences by Perception: A Pilot Experiment	p. 239
Gesture for Therapy and Rehabilitation
Signs Workshop: The Importance of Natural Gestures in the Promotion of Early Communication Skills of Children with Developmental Disabilities	p. 245
The Ergonomic Analysis of the Workplace of Physically Disabled Individuals	p. 255
Gesture in Mobile Computing and Usability Studies
Mnemonical Body Shortcuts for Interacting with Mobile Devices	p. 261
The Effects of the Gesture Viewpoint on the Students' Memory of Words and Stories	p. 272
Author Index	p. 283
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