A Nice Gesture

Boy, I have been looking for this cartoon for two and a half years (off and on, that is, see here). So, a big thanks to diamond-blade for pointing out the link.

It was the Garfield daily comic from February 27, 2005 (source)
The reason why I like this comic so much (besides my general fascination for [...]

Posted on June 12th, 2009 under Biological Motion, Intentionality, gesture recognition, gesture semiotics. Comments: 1

Check out the hilarious joke from the folks at Opera Labs. I will let it speak for itself.

Posted on April 7th, 2009 under Playing with Gestures, facial expression, gesture recognition, play. Tags: face gestures, humour, joke. Comments: None

“Should I stay or should I go?” That seems to be the only concern of the robot that features in a demo movie made by researcher at Brown University. It takes its gestured orders in a way that is easily associated with the way soldiers on a patrol would gesture to ’stop’ or to ‘go’ [...]

Posted on March 12th, 2009 under Defense & Military, Robots, gesture recognition. Comments: None

Christian Stoessel, Hartmut Wandke & Lucienne Blessing:
Gestural interfaces for elderly users: Help or hindrance?
Publications here
Christian starts out by pointing towards the changing demographics (Dutch ‘vergrijzing’). There will be many elderly people. Or perhaps  better, many people above 65 years, because these people may be more healthy in body and mind than previous generations of elderly [...]

Posted on February 27th, 2009 under Scratching Surfaces, gesture recognition. Tags: GW2009. Comments: None

Sixense TrueMotion Presentation at NVISION08 - Highlights was uploaded by: sixensent
Duration: 304
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Posted on January 12th, 2009 under YouTube Faves, gesture recognition. Tags: entertainment, games, sixense, truemotion, videogames. Comments: None

Sixense shows off its magnet-based gesture control system for games was uploaded by: deantak
Duration: 77
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Posted on January 12th, 2009 under YouTube Faves, gesture recognition. Tags: CES 2009, sixense. Comments: 1

Hitachi shows off Canesta’s 3-D depth camera for a gesture-controlled TV was uploaded by: deantak
Duration: 51
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Posted on January 12th, 2009 under YouTube Faves, gesture recognition. Tags: Canesta, CES 2009. Comments: None

Demo of Orange Vallee’s gesture-controlled TV, with Softkinetics technology was uploaded by: deantak
Duration: 132
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Posted on January 12th, 2009 under YouTube Faves, gesture recognition. Tags: CES 2009, gesture-controlled, TV. Comments: None

Panasonic EZ Touch Remote - Best Of Show at CEATEC 2008 was uploaded by: lucarigazio
Duration: 150
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Posted on January 11th, 2009 under YouTube Faves, gesture recognition. Tags: "touch, CE, Concepts, Consumer, Controller, design, Electronics, Gadgets, Interface, New, Remote, technology, Universal, User. Comments: None