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Reusable Gestures for Interacting with Ambient Displays in Unfamiliar Environments

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Gesture-based interfaces offer great opportunity for achieving natural and intuitive interactions in the age of ambient intelligence. Therefore,many efforts have been dedicated in the recent years for proposing gesture acquisition, recognition, and interaction techniques. The age of ambient intelligence has also incorporated gestures into practical applications having as main goals adaptive and personalized interactions. However, practitioners are faced with several issues when implementing gesture-based interfaces for public displays. Let alone the acquisition technologies and recognition algorithms, there are currently little to no rules for creating the specific set of gestures for a given application. Therefore, a compromise is usually made by associating gestures and functions based on the designer’s expertize and experience. This contradicts the goals of ambient intelligence where the interaction should be personalized to each user. With this respect, we propose a novel concept for reusing a set of user-defined and user-specific gestures for interacting with public ambient displays. The concept relies on an important shift of perspective: it is not the users that adapt to the interface but instead the interface employs the users’ own gesture set with their own preferred meanings.

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  1. University Stefan cel Mare of Suceava, 13, Universitatii, Suceava, 720229, Romania

    Radu-Daniel Vatavu

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  1. Departamento de Informática, Universidade do Minho , Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

    Paulo Novais

  2. Department of Computer Science , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , Celestijnenlaan 200A, 02.152, B-3001, Heverlee, Belgium

    Davy Preuveneers

  3. Departamento de Informática y Automática Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado

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Vatavu, RD. (2011). Reusable Gestures for Interacting with Ambient Displays in Unfamiliar Environments. In: Novais, P., Preuveneers, D., Corchado, J.M. (eds) Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 92. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19937-0_20

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