A mix of posts on gesture, HCI, perception or robots and some personal information.
I was wrong. Wrong about the necessity of hands for gesturing (actually, for waving, to be exact).
(source: ShoutWire)
Apparently, any old hook will do instead of hands. Or should we say that this case is a special case of projection? Perhaps it is the placement of the hook on Pirate Arm’s End that enables the [...]
The 2008 8th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition is upcoming. It will be held in De Rode Hoed in Amsterdam, September 17-19, 2008.
FG2008 logo
22 March is the deadline for the submission of regular papers. There will also be a workshop on the ‘Psychology of Face and Gesture Recognition’. That should be [...]
With great delight I read Herman Roodenburg’s 2004 book called ‘Eloquence of the Body. Perspectives on gesture in the Dutch Republic’. I already posted about it earlier with respect to Jelgerhuis and a lovely video about ‘Welstand’. Roodenburg is a scholar based at the Meertens Instituut, who has written on various topics where history and [...]
Orange, the phone company, is exploring and developing a nice new niche market for gesture recognition: The Interactive Shop Window.
Could it be one of the killer apps for gesture recognition? I think it is possible. The advantages are quite clear. As a unique selling point gesture recognition offers the possibility to interact through existing windows, [...]
Just for a laugh, here is a caricature of soldiers’ hand signals:
(Source: Geenstijl Dumpert)
My Del.icio.us Links Books in My Library