CUBOD: A Customized Body Gesture Design Tool for End Users

Abstract

As motion sensors have become more advanced, gesture-control systems have become more popular in gaming and everyday appliances. However, in existing systems, gestures are predefined by designers or pattern-recognition experts. Such predefined gestures can be inconvenient for specific users in specific environments. Hence, it would be useful to provide end users the flexibility to design and customize gestures to satisfy their own needs. In this paper, we present a system that allows end users to design and customize gestures interactively. A key challenge is that arbitrary user-defined gestures can be difficult for the computer to recognize reliably. A gesture may be too similar to frequent unintentional moves, too difficult to distinguish from other gestures, and/or too difficult to perform consistently. Hence, our system first evaluates the userdefined gesture and then gives feedback on its appropriateness to guide the user in the design of appropriate gestures. A user study demonstrated that users were able to design more appropriate gestures with such guidance than without it.

Contributors

Jeff K.T. Tang

Takeo Igarashi

Conference

Publication date: September 2013

Publication date (Print): September 2013

Pages: 1-10

Affiliations

Caritas Institute of Higher Education &

JST ERATO Igarashi Design Interface Project

Tokyo, Japan

JST ERATO Igarashi Design Interface Project &

The University of Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2013.22

Copyright statement: © Jeff K.T. Tang et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. 27th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2013), Brunel University, London, UK

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Conference name: 27th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2013)

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 27

Conference location: Brunel University, London, UK

Conference date: 9 - 13 September 2013

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2013)

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing