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Secure communication is essential in covert and safety-critical settings where verbal interactions may expose user intent or operational context. Wearable gesture-based communication enables low-effort, nonverbal interaction, but existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tasnia Ashrafi Heya , Sayed Erfan Arefin

Emotion recognition and touch gesture decoding are crucial for advancing human-robot interaction (HRI), especially in social environments where emotional cues and tactile perception play important roles. However, many humanoid robots, such…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yuanbo Hou , Qiaoqiao Ren , Wenwu Wang , Dick Botteldooren

We introduce AirWare, an in-air hand-gesture recognition system that uses the already embedded speaker and microphone in most electronic devices, together with embedded infrared proximity sensors. Gestures identified by AirWare are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Nibhrat Lohia , Raunak Mundada , Arya D. McCarthy , Eric C. Larson

New and more natural human-robot interfaces are of crucial interest to the evolution of robotics. This paper addresses continuous and real-time hand gesture spotting, i.e., gesture segmentation plus gesture recognition. Gesture patterns are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Pedro Neto , Dário Pereira , Norberto Pires , Paulo Moreira

Tactile sensing is a essential for skilled manipulation and object perception, but existing devices are unable to capture mechanical signals in the full gamut of regimes that are important for human touch sensing, and are unable to emulate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Yitian Shao , Hui Hu , Yon Visell

We present an advance in wearable technology: a mobile-optimized, real-time, ultra-low-power event camera system that enables natural hand gesture control for smart glasses, dramatically improving user experience. While hand gesture…

Developments in touch-sensitive textiles have enabled many novel interactive techniques and applications. Our digitally-knitted capacitive active sensors can be manufactured at scale with little human intervention. Their sensitive areas are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Denisa Qori McDonald , Richard Valett , Lev Saunders , Genevieve Dion , Ali Shokoufandeh

Hand gestures are a natural means of interaction in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) applications. Recently, there has been an increased focus on removing the dependence of accurate hand gesture recognition on complex sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Varun Jain , Shivam Aggarwal , Suril Mehta , Ramya Hebbalaguppe

Wireless earbuds are an appealing platform for wearable computing on-the-go. However, their small size and out-of-view location mean they support limited different inputs. We propose finger identification input on earbuds as a novel…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Jiwan Kim , Mingyu Han , Ian Oakley

Accurately estimating hand pose and hand-object contact events is essential for robot data-collection, immersive virtual environments, and biomechanical analysis, yet remains challenging due to visual occlusion, subtle contact cues,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yuemin Mao , Uksang Yoo , Yunchao Yao , Shahram Najam Syed , Luca Bondi , Jonathan Francis , Jean Oh , Jeffrey Ichnowski

Embodied conversational agents benefit from being able to accompany their speech with gestures. Although many data-driven approaches to gesture generation have been proposed in recent years, it is still unclear whether such systems can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Taras Kucherenko , Rajmund Nagy , Michael Neff , Hedvig Kjellström , Gustav Eje Henter

The acoustic response of an object can reveal a lot about its global state, for example its material properties or the extrinsic contacts it is making with the world. In this work, we build an active acoustic sensing gripper equipped with…

Gesture recognition is a very essential technology for many wearable devices. While previous algorithms are mostly based on statistical methods including the hidden Markov model, we develop two dynamic hand gesture recognition techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Sungho Shin , Wonyong Sung

In an organization, individuals prefer to form various formal and informal groups for mutual interactions. Therefore, ubiquitous identification of such groups and understanding their dynamics are important to monitor activities, behaviours…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Snigdha Das , Soumyajit Chatterjee , Sandip Chakraborty , Bivas Mitra

We study the problem of making 3D scene reconstructions interactive by asking the following question: can we predict the sounds of human hands physically interacting with a scene? First, we record a video of a human manipulating objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yiming Dou , Wonseok Oh , Yuqing Luo , Antonio Loquercio , Andrew Owens

Smart earbuds are recognized as a new wearable platform for personal-scale human motion sensing. However, due to the interference from head movement or background noise, commonly-used modalities (e.g. accelerometer and microphone) fail to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Dong Ma , Andrea Ferlini , Cecilia Mascolo

Hand gesture recognition has been granted as one of the emerging fields in research today providing a natural way of communication between man and a machine. Gestures are some forms of body motions which a person expresses when doing a work…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-27 Biswarup Ganguly , Amit Konar

As robots become increasingly prevalent in both homes and industrial settings, the demand for intuitive and efficient human-machine interaction continues to rise. Gesture recognition offers an intuitive control method that does not require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yuqing Song , Cesare Tonola , Stefano Savazzi , Sanaz Kianoush , Nicola Pedrocchi , Stephan Sigg

Tracking hand poses on wrist-wearables enables rich, expressive interactions, yet remains unavailable on commercial smartwatches, as prior implementations rely on external sensors or custom hardware, limiting their real-world applicability.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Jiwan Kim , Chi-Jung Lee , Hohurn Jung , Tianhong Catherine Yu , Ruidong Zhang , Ian Oakley , Cheng Zhang

The adoption of multimodal interactions by Voice Assistants (VAs) is growing rapidly to enhance human-computer interactions. Smartwatches have now incorporated trigger-less methods of invoking VAs, such as Raise To Speak (RTS), where the…