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Marquardt, N., Kiemer, J. and Greenberg, S. (2010)
What Caused That Touch? The Video. Research report 2010-965-14, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June. Video, duration 3:28.
Type: Public research report (video). Duration 3:00.
Note: A very slightly different version is included as a video figure with the ACM ITS paper.
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Abstract.
The hand has incredible potential as an expressive input device. Yet most touch technologies imprecisely recognize limited hand parts (if at all), usually by inferring the hand part from the touch shapes. This video demonstrates the fiduciary-tagged glove as a reliable, inexpensive, and very expressive way to gather input about: (a) many parts of a hand (fingertips, knuckles, palms, sides, backs of the hand), and (b) to discriminate between one person’s or multiple peoples’ hands. Examples illustrate the interaction power gained by being able to identify and exploit these various hand parts.
Keywords: Surfaces, touch, gestures, postures, gloves, fiduciary tags, multi user.