A variable-porosity suction glove has been flown on the F-16XL-2 aircraft to demonstrate the feasibility of this technology for the proposed High-Speed Civil Transport. Boundary-layer transition data on the titanium glove primarily have been obtained at speeds of Mach 2.0 and altitudes of 15,240–16,764 m (50,000–55,000 ft). The objectives of this flight experiment have been to achieve 0.50–0.60...

In this paper, we present the development of a data glove system based on fingertip tracking techniques. To track the fingertip position and orientation, a sensor module and two generator coils are attached on the fingertip and metacarpal of the corresponding finger. By tracking the fingertip, object manipulation tasks in a virtual environment or teleoperation system can be carried out more pre...

A well known and simple game to model markets is the glove game where worth is produced by building matching pairs. For glove games, diff erent concepts, like the Shapley value, the restricted Shapley value or the Owen value, yield diff erent distributions of worth. Moreover, computational eff ort of these values is in general very high. This paper provides effi cient allocation formulas of the...

Sign language recognition has been a topic of research since the first data glove was developed. Many researchers have attempted to recognize sign language through various techniques. However none of them have ventured into the area of Pakistan Sign Language (PSL). The Boltay Haath project aims at recognizing PSL gestures using Statistical Template Matching. The primary input device is the Data...

Wearable computing is a form of ubiquitous computing that offers flexible and useful tools for users. Specifically, glove-based systems have been used in the last 30 years in a variety of applications, but mostly focusing on sensing people's attributes, such as finger bending and heart rate. In contrast, we propose in this work a novel flexible and reconfigurable instrumentation platform in the...

ctor Tom Cruise is a cool guy. In Minority Report, he shines as a hard-boiled fighter against evil. He is cast as a policeman in the year 2054 – and as you would expect from science fiction, he is surrounded by a huge amount of high tech. But looking at the movie today, only 14 years after its premiere, there are parts of the vision of the future that don’t look very advanced. In a scene that s...

Many applications in human-machine interfaces, information visualization, rehabilitation and entertainment are calling for hand pose reconstruction systems that are both accurate and economic. Unfortunately, economically and ergonomically viable sensing gloves provide limited precision due to imperfect and incomplete correspondence of sensing models with the anatomical degrees-of-freedom of the...

At present, hand tracking based on particle filter obtains current 3D hand gesture mainly by two elements, that is, by current frame of gesture images and by status information of the previous 3D hand gesture. Compared with current algorithms, the proposed algorithm focuses on behavior analysis and process modeling. Focusing on mathematical linkages establishment between microstructure model an...

In the domain of sign language recognition from video, most approaches try to segment and track the hands and head of the signer in a first step and subsequently extract a feature vector from these regions [1, 2]. Because of possible occlusions between the hands and the head of the signer, noise, or brisk movements, segmentation can be difficult. Many approaches therefore use special data acqui...