Designing gestures for hands and feet in daily life

  • Authors:
  • Tetsuya Yamamoto;Tsutomu Terada;Masahiko Tsukamoto

  • Affiliations:
  • Kobe University, Kobe, Japan;Kobe University, Kobe, Japan;Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In wearable computing environments, people handles various information anytime and anywhere with a wearing computer. In such situation, a gesture is one of powerful methods as input method because it needs no physical devices to touch and a user can input quickly. However, there are various restrictions for gesture input in daily life; gestures must be socially acceptable because a user has to gesture with unusual movements in a crowd, gestures must be flexible because a user cannot gesture when he/she has a bag with his hand that is used for a gesture. In this paper, we clarify the restrictions on gesture interfaces in daily life, then propose practical gestures for selecting simple menu items with hands and feet.