Embodied hands

Embodied Hands: Modeling and Capturing Hands and Bodies Together **Supplementary Material**

For the creation of the MANO hand model, we first collect a large number of scans of hands in isolation. These scans are obtained with a scanner configured specifically to capture hands with a fixed wrist position. This allows us to capture the nuances of hand deformation. After capturing this data for both right and left hands, we create a single augmented dataset by mirroring the left hand sc...

Exploring how children use their hands to think: an embodied interactional analysis

In order to better understand how to design hands-on child-computer interaction, we explore how different styles of interaction facilitate children‟s thinking while they use their hands to manipulate objects. We present an exploratory study of children solving a spatial puzzle task. We investigate how the affordances of physical, graphical, and tangible interfaces may facilitate the development...

Detecting Hands in Children's Egocentric Views to Understand Embodied Attention during Social Interaction

Understanding visual attention in children could yield insight into how the visual system develops during formative years and how children’s overt attention plays a role in development and learning. We are particularly interested in the role of hands and hand activities in children’s visual attention. We use headmounted cameras to collect egocentric video and eye gaze data of toddlers during pl...

Do nimble hands make for nimble lexicons? Fine motor skills predict knowledge of embodied vocabulary items

Theories and research in embodied cognition postulate that cognition grounded in action enjoys a processing advantage. Extending this theory to the study of how fine motor skills (FMS) link to vocabulary development in preschool children, the authors investigated FMS and vocabulary in 76 preschoolers. Building on previous research, they hypothesized that links between FMS and vocabulary were dr...

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