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Ambient Gestures

Ambient Gestures
Ambient Gestures
We present Ambient Gestures, a novel gesture-based system designed to support ubiquitous ‘in the environment’ interactions with everyday computing technology. Hand gestures and audio feedback allow users to control computer applications without reliance on a graphical user interface, and without having to switch from the context of a non-computer task to the context of the computer. The Ambient Gestures system is composed of a vision recognition software application, a set of gestures to be processed by a scripting application and a navigation and selection application that is controlled by the gestures. This system allows us to explore gestures as the primary means of interaction within a multimodal, multimedia environment. In this paper we describe the Ambient Gestures system, define the gestures and the interactions that can be achieved in this environment and present a formative study of the system. We conclude with a discussion of our findings and future applications of Ambient Gestures in ubiquitous computing.
Gestures, multimodal interaction, HCI, multimedia, ubiquitous computing, transparent computing
Karam, Maria
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Hare, Jonathon
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Lewis, Paul
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schraefel, m.c.
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Karam, Maria
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Hare, Jonathon
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Lewis, Paul
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Karam, Maria, Hare, Jonathon, Lewis, Paul and schraefel, m.c. (2006) Ambient Gestures

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We present Ambient Gestures, a novel gesture-based system designed to support ubiquitous ‘in the environment’ interactions with everyday computing technology. Hand gestures and audio feedback allow users to control computer applications without reliance on a graphical user interface, and without having to switch from the context of a non-computer task to the context of the computer. The Ambient Gestures system is composed of a vision recognition software application, a set of gestures to be processed by a scripting application and a navigation and selection application that is controlled by the gestures. This system allows us to explore gestures as the primary means of interaction within a multimodal, multimedia environment. In this paper we describe the Ambient Gestures system, define the gestures and the interactions that can be achieved in this environment and present a formative study of the system. We conclude with a discussion of our findings and future applications of Ambient Gestures in ubiquitous computing.

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Published date: March 2006
Keywords: Gestures, multimodal interaction, HCI, multimedia, ubiquitous computing, transparent computing
Organisations: Web & Internet Science, Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 262030
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/262030
PURE UUID: bbd8ad40-9e6d-4a94-ba71-9371eb3c5fcd
ORCID for Jonathon Hare: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2921-4283
ORCID for m.c. schraefel: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9061-7957

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Date deposited: 01 Mar 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:25

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Author: Maria Karam
Author: Jonathon Hare ORCID iD
Author: Paul Lewis
Author: m.c. schraefel ORCID iD

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