Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation: 7th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, May 23-25, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

ISBN-13: 9783540928645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 284 str.

Miguel Sales Dias;Sylvie Gibet;Marcelo M. Wanderley

Opis

The International Gesture Workshop is an interdisciplinary event where researchers working on human gesture-based communication present advanced research currently inprogressandexchangeideasongestureacrossmultidisciplinaryscienti?cdisciplines. This workshop encompasses all fundamental aspects of gestural studies in the ?eld of human-computer interaction and simulation, including all multifaceted issues of m- elling, analysis and synthesis of human gesture, encompassing hand and body gestures andfacial expressions. A focusof these eventsis a sharedinterest in usinggesturein the contextofsign languageanalysis, understandingandsynthesis. Anotherstreamof int- est is the user-centric approach of considering gesture in multimodal human-computer interaction, in the framework of the integration of such interaction into the natural - vironment of users. In addition to welcoming submission of work by established - searchers, it is the tradition of the GW series of workshops to encourage submission of student work at various stages of completion, enabling a broader dissemination of ?nished or on-going novel work and the exchangeof experiences in a multidisciplinary environment. Gesture Workshop 2007 (GW 2007) was the 7th European Gesture Workshop in the GW series initiated in 1996. Since that date, the Gesture Workshops have been held roughly every second year, with fully reviewed proceedings typically published by Springer. GW 2007 was organized by ADETTI at ISCTE-Lisbon University - stitute, during May 23-25, 2007. In GW 2007, from the 53 contributions that were received, 15 high-quality full papers were accepted, along with 16 short papers and 10 posters and demos, showing on-going promising gesture research. Two brilliant keynote speakers honored the event with their presentations.

Spis treści

Analysis and Synthesis of Gesture.- Gesture Recognition Based on Elastic Deformation Energies.- Approximation of Curvature and Velocity for Gesture Segmentation and Synthesis.- Motion Primitives and Probabilistic Edit Distance for Action Recognition.- Theoretical Aspects of Gestural Communication and Interaction.- On the Parametrization of Clapping.- Improving the Believability of Virtual Characters Using Qualitative Gesture Analysis.- A Method for Selection of Optimal Hand Gesture Vocabularies.- Vision-Based Gesture Recognition.- Person-Independent 3D Sign Language Recognition.- Skin Color Profile Capture for Scale and Rotation Invariant Hand Gesture Recognition.- Robust Tracking for Processing of Videos of Communication’s Gestures.- Representation of Human Postures for Vision-Based Gesture Recognition in Real-Time.- Enhancing a Sign Language Translation System with Vision-Based Features.- Sign Language Processing.- Generating Data for Signer Adaptation.- A Qualitative and Quantitative Characterisation of Style in Sign Language Gestures.- Sequential Belief-Based Fusion of Manual and Non-manual Information for Recognizing Isolated Signs.- Gesture Modelling for Linguistic Purposes.- Gesturing with Tangible Interfaces and in Virtual and Augmented Reality.- Automatic Classification of Expressive Hand Gestures on Tangible Acoustic Interfaces According to Laban’s Theory of Effort.- Implementing Distinctive Behavior for Conversational Agents.- Using Hand Gesture and Speech in a Multimodal Augmented Reality Environment.- A Virtual Reality-Based Framework for Experiments on Perception of Manual Gestures.- Processing Iconic Gestures in a Multimodal Virtual Construction Environment.- Analysis of Emotional Gestures for the Generation of Expressive Copying Behaviour in an Embodied Agent.- Gestures to Intuitively Control Large Displays.- Gesture for Music and Performing Arts.- Geometry and Effort in Gestural Renderings of Musical Sound.- String Bowing Gestures at Varying Bow Stroke Frequencies: A Case Study.- Gesture Control of Sound Spatialization for Live Musical Performance.- Validation of an Algorithm for Segmentation of Full-Body Movement Sequences by Perception: A Pilot Experiment.- Gesture for Therapy and Rehabilitation.- Signs Workshop: The Importance of Natural Gestures in the Promotion of Early Communication Skills of Children with Developmental Disabilities.- The Ergonomic Analysis of the Workplace of Physically Disabled Individuals.- Gesture in Mobile Computing and Usability Studies.- Mnemonical Body Shortcuts for Interacting with Mobile Devices.- The Effects of the Gesture Viewpoint on the Students’ Memory of Words and Stories.

Blurb

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation, GW 2007, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in May 2007.

The 31 revised papers presented were carefully selected from 53 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on analysis and synthesis of gesture; theoretical aspects of gestural communication and interaction; vision-based gesture recognition; sign language processing; gesturing with tangible interfaces and in virtual and augmented reality; gesture for music and performing arts; gesture for therapy and rehabilitation; and gesture in Mobile computing and usability studies.