Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction
Subtitle: 5th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2003, Genova, Italy, April 15-17, 2003, Selected Revised Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Contributors: Antonio Camurri (Editor); Gualtiero Volpe (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: March 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9783540210726
Subjects: Computers - General Information; Computer Graphics - General; Computers; Sign language; Computer Books: General; Human-computer interaction; Congresses; Artificial Intelligence - General; Computers / Artificial Intelligence; computational intelligence; conversational agents; gestural imagery; gestural interaction; gesture analysis; gesture mediated HCI; gesture recognition; motion tracking; multimodal interaction; Computer Science; Gesture
First sentence: With the massive development of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), new systems try to take advantage of the expressive power of gestures.
Description: Research on the multifaceted aspects of modeling, analysis, and synthesis of - man gesture is receiving growing interest from both the academic and industrial communities. On one hand, recent scienti?c developments on cognition, on - fect/emotion, on multimodal interfaces, and on multimedia have opened new perspectives on the integration of more sophisticated models of gesture in c- putersystems.Ontheotherhand,theconsolidationofnewtechnologiesenabling “disappearing” computers and (multimodal) interfaces to be integrated into the natural environments of users are making it realistic to consider tackling the complex meaning and subtleties of human gesture in multimedia systems, - abling a deeper, user-centered, enhanced physical participation and experience in the human-machine interaction process. The research programs supported by the European Commission and s- eral national institutions and governments individuated in recent years strategic ?elds strictly concerned with gesture research. For example, the DG Infor- tion Society of the European Commission (www.cordis.lu/ist) supports several initiatives, such as the “Disappearing Computer” and “Presence” EU-IST FET (Future and Emerging Technologies), the IST program “Interfaces & Enhanced Audio-Visual Services” (see for example the project MEGA, Multisensory - pressive Gesture Applications, www.megaproject.org), and the IST strategic - jective “Multimodal Interfaces.” Several EC projects and other funded research are represented in the chapters of this book. Awiderangeofapplicationscanbene?tfromadvancesinresearchongesture, from consolidated areas such as surveillance to new or emerging ?elds such as therapy and rehabilitation, home consumer goods, entertainment, and aud- visual, cultural and artistic applications, just to mention only a few of them.