Gesture interaction for small handheld devices to support multimedia applications

Jani Mäntyjärvi, Sanna Kallio, Panu Korpipää, Juha Kela, Johan Plomp

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    Abstract

    Accelerometer-based gesture control is proposed as a complementary interaction modality for small handheld devices to enable a variety of multimedia applications. The motivation for experimenting with gesture interaction is justified by the personal and public domain prototype applications developed. The challenges related to developing user-dependent and independent gesture control are presented. In this article, we experiment with methods for user-dependent gesture recognition with a low number of training repetitions, and for feasible user-independent gesture recognition from a moderately large set of gestures. The user-dependent gesture recognition performance of the continuous Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is better when compared to discrete HMM with three gesture repetitions in a training set. With continuous HMM, a recognition accuracy level of 95% is obtained with or without tilt normalization, while for discrete HMM a best recognition accuracy of 90% is obtained. The user-independent gesture recognition performance with continuous HMM of 89% is considerably better compared to tests with discrete HMM, when both are obtained with cross-validation from 2,520 gestures. An important result is that the effect of using tilt normalization notably increases the user-independent gesture recognition performance by 10- 15% depending on the method used. The chosen methods show great potential for gesture-based interaction in multimedia applications.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)92 - 112
    Number of pages21
    JournalJournal of Mobile Multimedia
    Volume1
    Issue number2
    Publication statusPublished - 2005
    MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

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