Print Email Facebook Twitter Seeing Signs: On the appearance of manual movements in gestures Title Seeing Signs: On the appearance of manual movements in gestures Author Arendsen, J. Contributor De Ridder, H. (promotor) Van Doorn, A.J. (promotor) Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Industrial Design Date 2009-10-19 Abstract This dissertation presents the results of a series of studies on the appearance of manual movements in gestures. The main goal of this research is to increase our understanding of how humans perceive signs and other gestures. Generated insights from human perception may aid the development of technology for recognizing gestures and sign language automatically with cameras and computers. One example of an application of automatic gesture recognition that has played a role in shaping the research in this dissertation is ELo, an Electronic Learning environment for deaf and hearing impaired children to practice Sign Language of the Netherlands (SLN) signs. The questions addressed in the research focus on a number of aspects including temporal processing of signs, discrimination of gestures from other human behaviour, and how humans handle variation in signs. Subject gesturesign Languageperceptionrecognitionfidgetingmovementintentionscommunication To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2b925bb5-d426-4f7b-bffb-8a8e3a1d4307 Publisher JAMMI R&D Embargo date 2009-10-14 ISBN 9789090246307 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2009 Arendsen, J. Files PDF PhD_Thesis_Arendsen_web.pdf 22.12 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:2b925bb5-d426-4f7b-bffb-8a8e3a1d4307/datastream/OBJ/view