2008 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing Optimal Consensus Intuitive Hand Gesture Vocabulary Design August 04-August 07 ISBN: 978-0-7695-3279-0
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICSC.2008.29
Gesture interfaces are needed for natural intuitive communication with machine devices. Hand gesture intuitiveness is the cognitive association between a command or intent, and its physical gestural expression. Using an automated tool we quantified intuitive indices for static gesture commands for a car navigation task. A small number of gestures were selected to express most of the commands with 1/3 used only by single individuals. This followed a power function analogous to Zipf's Law for languages. We found gesture preferences to be highly individualized, providing evidence to refute the hypothesis of the universality of gestures. A mathematical program was formulated to obtain a consensus gesture vocabulary for a car navigation system with the objective of maximizing total intuitiveness. We also introduced the notion of complex consensus gesture vocabularies in which multi-gestures are associated with single commands and multi-commands are associated with single gestures. We recommend hybrid gesture vocabularies, decided by consensus with several gestures selected individually.
Index Terms:
intuitive indices, hand gestures, optimal vocabulary, gesture selection, man-machine interaction, interfaces
Citation:
Helman I. Stern, Juan P. Wachs, Yael Edan, "Optimal Consensus Intuitive Hand Gesture Vocabulary Design," icsc, pp.96-103, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2008 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||