As computers become more pervasive in society, facilitating natural human–computer
interaction (HCI) will have a positive impact on their use. Hence, there has been growing …

After many decades of research, the ability to interact with technology through touchless
gestures and sensed body movements is becoming an everyday reality. The emergence of …

An objective of natural Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is to enable humans to communicate
with robots in the same manner humans do between themselves. This includes the use of …

Sterility restrictions in surgical settings make touch-less interaction an interesting solution for
surgeons to interact directly with digital images. The HCI community has already explored …

Touchless or empty-handed gestural input has received considerable attention during the
last years because of such benefits as removing the burden of physical contact with an …

During medical interventions, direct interaction with medical image data is a cumbersome
task for physicians due to the sterile environment. Even though touchless input via hand, foot …

We aimed at determining the effects of prototype games on older adults attending a
rehabilitation program in an elderly house in this work. We conducted an initial case study …

For decades, architectural designs are created and communicated by de facto tools; either
2D CAD or 3D CAD. Architects and CAD operators alike use CAD software installed on their …

[ES] Los dispositivos de captura RGBD han demostrado ser un enfoque tecnológico realista
para la prevención terapéutica de caídas. Estos dispositivos RGBD facilitan la captura del …

This thesis focuses on bare hand gesture recognition by proposing a new architecture to
solve the problem of real-time vision-based hand detection, tracking, and gesture …