The main problem this work addresses is the real-time recognition of gestures, particularly in the complex domain of artistic performance. By recognizing the performer gestures, one is able to map them to diverse controls, from lightning control to the creation of visuals, sound control or even...

With new marketing strategies and technologies, new demands arise, and the standard public relation or salesperson is not enough, costumers tend to have higher standards while companies try to capture their attention, requiring the use of creative contents and ideas. For this purpose, this...

Finger spelling in air helps user to operate a computer in order to make human interaction easier and faster than keyboard and touch screen. This article presents a real-time video based system which recognizes the English alphabets and words written in air using finger movements only. Optical...

This paper discusses recent and unique inventions in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). To that end, firstly the authors discuss the Sixth Sense Technology. This technology allows users to interact with virtual objects in the real world in a unique manner. It has a number of applications which...

This article describes how physical therapy rehabilitation promotes functional ability of the disabled people to improve quality of life using Range of Motion exercises. The conventional rehabilitation seems to be effective; however, the efficiency of the treatment sessions is not guaranteed...

In this paper, the authors proposed a Scale Space Co-occurrence Histograms of Oriented Gradients method (SS Co-HOG) for retrieving words from digitized handwritten documents. The poor performance of HOG based word spotting in handwritten documents is due to that HOG ignores spatial information...