[UACCESS-L] Gesture control

[Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>]

Gesture-Controlled Computer Interface Developed.

Popular Science (5/27, Mone) reported on SixthSense, developed by MIT grad student Pranav Mistry, which acts as a portable, gesture-controlled interface that could eventually "let people operate smartphones without touching a button, do instant research on objects around them, and generally offer the kind of enhanced-reality experience that's now confined to science fiction." Four different colors of tape are wrapped around the user's thumbs and forefingers. "A webcam captures video, including specific hand signals that" software in an accompanying laptop tracks and interprets. "A mini-projector then displays the relevant content - e-mail, stock charts, photos - on the nearest surface." Later this year, "Mistry will begin working with Samsung engineers to compress the entire system into one of the company's new smartphones, which has a built-in projector. With further improvements to the algorithms, eventually even the markers and tape could go away and the device could track fingers alone."

Gregg

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Gregg Vanderheiden Ph.D.

Director Trace R&D Center

Professor Industrial & Systems Engineering

and Biomedical Engineering

University of Wisconsin-Madison