Making Gestural Input from Arm-Worn Inertial Sensors More Practical

Distribution

Presented at the SIG-CHI 2012.

Abstract

Gestural input can greatly improve computing experiences away from the desktop, and has the potential to provide always-available access to computing. Specifically, ac- celerometers and gyroscopes worn on the arm (e.g., in a wristwatch) can sense arm gestures, enabling natural input in untethered scenarios. Two core components of any ges- ture recognition system are detecting when a gesture is oc- curring and classifying which gesture a person has performed. In previous work, accurate detection has required significant computation, and high-accuracy classification has come at the cost of training the system on a per-user basis. In this note, we present a gesture detection method whose computational complexity does not depend on the duration of the gesture, and describe a novel method for recognizing gestures with only a single example from a new user.

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