The sound of one hand: A wrist-mounted bio-acoustic fingertip gesture interface

Brian Amento; Will Hill; Loren Terveen

The sound of one hand: A wrist-mounted bio-acoustic fingertip gesture interface

Brian Amento, Will Hill, Loren Terveen

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Two hundred and fifty years ago the Japanese Zen master Hakuin asked the question, "What is the Sound of the Single Hand?" This koan has long served as an aid to meditation but it also describes our new interaction technique. We discovered that gentle fingertip gestures such as tapping, rubbing, and flicking make quiet sounds that travel by bone conduction throughout the hand. A small wristbandmounted contact microphone can reliably and inexpensively sense these sounds. We harnessed this "sound in the hand" phenomenon to build a wristband-mounted bioacoustic fingertip gesture interface. The bio-acoustic interface recognizes some common gestures that state-of-the-art glove and image-processing techniques capture but in a smaller, mobile package.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Editors	L. Terveen, D. Wixon, E. Comstock, A. Sasse
Pages	724-725
Number of pages	2
State	Published - Dec 1 2002
Event	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Minneapolis, MN, United States Duration: Apr 20 2002 → Apr 25 2002

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Other	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Country/Territory	United States
City	Minneapolis, MN
Period	4/20/02 → 4/25/02

Keywords

Acoustics
Fingers
Gestural interfaces
Gestures
Human-computer interaction
Mobile devices
Wrist

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