Slide deck: MAS834-Hand-Gloves-Interface-3D-Objects-Sujoy-Project-1

When I was a kid, I was introduced to the number system using the joints in my fingers. The finger joints, or the space between them, appear to me as a grid system that we can use for interacting with user interfaces. Of course, there have been a lot of work on using instrumented hands or hand gloves as user interfaces. Some of them depend on cameras or sophisticated gesture recognition devices like Kinect. Right after my presentation, I discovered this awesome Minority Report like UI from Oblong, which is developed by John Underkoffler, a Tangible Media alumnus. Clearly, there is little room for novel contribution in terms of gestural interaction. However, I am still looking for prior art that makes use of the number system metaphor, for applications like a simple calculator. During advanced stages of ideation, when we are working on 3D prototypes, such an interaction has the potential to be deemed as intuitive and efficient.