Swiss-cheese extended: an object recognition method for ubiquitous interfaces based on capacitive proximity sensing

  • Authors:
  • Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl;Andreas Braun;Felix Kamieth;Arjan Kuijper

  • Affiliations:
  • Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany;Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany;Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany;Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Swiss-Cheese Extended proposes a novel real-time method for recognizing objects with capacitive proximity sensors. Applying this technique to ubiquitous user interfaces, it is possible to detect the 3D-position of multiple human hands in different configurations above a surface that is equipped with a small number of sensors. The retrieved object configurations can significantly improve a user's interaction experience or an application's execution context, for example by detecting multi-hand zoom and rotation gestures or recognizing a grasping hand. We emphasize the broad applicability of the proposed method with a study of a multi-hand gesture recognition device.