Uni/Bi-manual wrist gesture interaction for one/two users : application to Kinemic

Wrist-based gesture interaction enables end-users to interact by mid-air gestures while keeping hands and fingers free for other manual tasks. This thesis aims to investigate how wrist-based gesture interaction could be made feasible with one wrist (unimanual) or two wrists (bimanual) for one end-user (in isolation) or two (in collaboration) and how to integrate it into an interactive application. For this purpose, we adopted a development life cycle made up of the following stages: design of a set of gestures from different sources (elicitation and literature survey), acquire a dataset of these gestures to train a recognizer, compare several recognizers on this dataset with various conditions, and mapping gestures to commands into an interactive application so that they can be handled in real time. This life cycle is applied specifically to the Kinemic device and for a computer-assisted presentation application.