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Demonstrating HighFiveLive: A mobile application for recognizing symbolic gestures

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Abstract

Gestures are an important part of our social fabric, aiding our speech (and sometimes standing in for it) in face-to-face communications. In this demonstration, we present HighFiveLive, a smartwatch application that uses data from an onboard accelerometer to detect and classify fine-grained symbolic gestures, which convey semantic meaning and have social significance. We apply logistic regression to learn a representative model of 9 symbolic gestures as performed by 32 users; in an offline evaluation study, the model accurately classifies 92% of recognized gestures. Building on this work, we deploy the learned model in our HighFiveLive mobile application, which detects and classifies symbolic gestures in real-time as they are performed. HighFiveLive is implemented as an Android application with connection to a wrist-worn accelerometer stream (such as a Microsoft Band) as well as a standalone Apple Watch application.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781509019410
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 19 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event14th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2016 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: Mar 14 2016Mar 18 2016

Publication series

Name2016 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2016

Conference

Conference14th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2016
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period3/14/163/18/16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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