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FingerPing: Recognizing Fine-grained Hand Poses using Active Acoustic On-body Sensing

Zhang, Cheng, Xue, Qiuyue, Waghmare, Anandghan, Meng, Ruichen, Jain, Sumeet, Han, Yizeng, Li, Xinyu, Cunefare, Kenneth +4 more·2018·Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Abstract

FingerPing is a novel sensing technique that can recognize various fine-grained hand poses by analyzing acoustic resonance features. A surface-transducer mounted on a thumb ring injects acoustic chirps (20Hz to 6,000Hz) to the body. Four receivers distributed on the wrist and thumb collect the chirps. Different hand poses of the hand create distinct paths for the acoustic chirps to travel, creating unique frequency responses at the four receivers. We demonstrate how FingerPing can differentiate up to 22 hand poses, including the thumb touching each of the 12 phalanges on the hand as well as 10 American sign language poses. A user study with 16 participants showed that our system can recognize these two sets of poses with an accuracy of 93.77% and 95.64%, respectively. We discuss the opportunities and remaining challenges for the widespread use of this input technique.

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  • A wrist-worn wearable outfitted with an inertial measurement unit (IMU) can easily detect wrist shaking to control smart devices.

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Zhang, C., Xue, Q., Waghmare, A., Meng, R., Jain, S., Han, Y., Li, X., Cunefare, K., Ploetz, T., Starner, T., Inan, O., & Abowd, G. D.
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  • Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
  • Tsinghua University (CN)
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Venue
Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
ACM
Published
2018-04-21
Pages
1-10
OpenAlex
W2795600692
Cited by
82
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23
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FWCI
7.05
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conference paper
Language
en
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closed
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CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Interactive and Immersive Displays
Keywords
hand posture recognition, acoustic sensing, American Sign Language, human-computer interaction

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