Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation: 7th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, May 23-25, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

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Gesture Recognition Based on Elastic Deformation Energies....Pages 1-12
Approximation of Curvature and Velocity for Gesture Segmentation and Synthesis....Pages 13-23
Motion Primitives and Probabilistic Edit Distance for Action Recognition....Pages 24-35
On the Parametrization of Clapping....Pages 36-47
Improving the Believability of Virtual Characters Using Qualitative Gesture Analysis....Pages 48-56
A Method for Selection of Optimal Hand Gesture Vocabularies....Pages 57-68
Person-Independent 3D Sign Language Recognition....Pages 69-80
Skin Color Profile Capture for Scale and Rotation Invariant Hand Gesture Recognition....Pages 81-92
Robust Tracking for Processing of Videos of Communication’s Gestures....Pages 93-101
Representation of Human Postures for Vision-Based Gesture Recognition in Real-Time....Pages 102-107
Enhancing a Sign Language Translation System with Vision-Based Features....Pages 108-113
Generating Data for Signer Adaptation....Pages 114-121
A Qualitative and Quantitative Characterisation of Style in Sign Language Gestures....Pages 122-133
Sequential Belief-Based Fusion of Manual and Non-manual Information for Recognizing Isolated Signs....Pages 134-144
Gesture Modelling for Linguistic Purposes....Pages 145-150
Automatic Classification of Expressive Hand Gestures on Tangible Acoustic Interfaces According to Laban’s Theory of Effort....Pages 151-162
Implementing Distinctive Behavior for Conversational Agents....Pages 163-174
Using Hand Gesture and Speech in a Multimodal Augmented Reality Environment....Pages 175-180
A Virtual Reality-Based Framework for Experiments on Perception of Manual Gestures....Pages 181-186
Processing Iconic Gestures in a Multimodal Virtual Construction Environment....Pages 187-192
Analysis of Emotional Gestures for the Generation of Expressive Copying Behaviour in an Embodied Agent....Pages 193-198
Gestures to Intuitively Control Large Displays....Pages 199-204
Geometry and Effort in Gestural Renderings of Musical Sound....Pages 205-215
String Bowing Gestures at Varying Bow Stroke Frequencies: A Case Study....Pages 216-226
Gesture Control of Sound Spatialization for Live Musical Performance....Pages 227-238
Validation of an Algorithm for Segmentation of Full-Body Movement Sequences by Perception: A Pilot Experiment....Pages 239-244
Signs Workshop: The Importance of Natural Gestures in the Promotion of Early Communication Skills of Children with Developmental Disabilities....Pages 245-254
The Ergonomic Analysis of the Workplace of Physically Disabled Individuals....Pages 255-260
Mnemonical Body Shortcuts for Interacting with Mobile Devices....Pages 261-271
The Effects of the Gesture Viewpoint on the Students’ Memory of Words and Stories....Pages 272-281
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