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We present a method for retiming existing 3D animations able to handle seamlessly arbitrary impulse-like user gestures, thus enabling expressive video-based control inspired from common review sessions used in animation studios. The approach works in ...

Humans physically express emotion by modulating parameters that register on mammalian skin mechanoreceptors, but are unavailable in current touch-sensing technology. Greater sensory richness combined with data on affect-expression composition is a ...

Micro-gestures are critical to expanding the personal computing environment. A nail-mounted device enabling micro-gesture and force inputs via the tip of a fingernail is proposed. A prototype with three touch sensors and a strain gauge to support five ...

Drones are increasingly being used in the construction industry for numerous applications. However, their presence poses safety risks to construction workers who work around them but have limited control and information about these drones. To ...

Isolated dynamic sign language recognition (IDSLR) has the potential to change accessibility and inclusion by enabling speech and/or hearing-impaired people to engage more completely in a variety of spheres of life, including social interactions, ...

The impaired mobility and limited freedom of individuals paralyzed due to spinal cord injuries or neurological illnesses present significant challenges. An innovative solution is urgently needed to provide adjustable and affordable hand ...

Sign language is a priceless means of communication for deaf and hard-of-hearing people to fully enable them to participate in society and interact with others. This study introduces a novel universal sign language system that uses the Gesture-...

With the ability to provide feedback and assistance, humanoid educational robots have been proven effective in assisting students to overcome learning challenges and enhancing individual learning outcomes. However, the strength of humanoid robots ...

Smartwatches enable interaction anytime and anywhere, with both digital and augmented physical objects. However, situations with busy hands can prevent user inputs. To address this limitation, we propose Fireworks, an innovative hands-free ...

• For guiding few gestures, a system-paced guidance is not necessary.
• Pursuits are more adapted than saccades for Single Straight Gaze Gestures.
• Delay and visual feedforward to activate Fireworks do not impact performances.
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The paper explores multimodal collaboration in expository discourse considering verbal and nonverbal moves used by the participants in turn-taking. It reports the results of an experiment which tested speech, gesture and gaze alignment as affected ...

Touchscreen devices have become prominent in a variety of educational contexts due to their use of hands-on and interactive learning styles, and particularly for their direct engagement, rapid orientation, and multi-touch affordances, ...

• 34 studies of touchscreen-based mathematics applications are systematically reviewed.

Embodied Pedagogical Agents (EPAs) possess significant potential for using multimodal interactions to effectively convey social and educational information. While previous studies have examined the impact of EPAs on learning performance, the ...

Customer satisfaction can be measured using facial expression recognition. The current generation of artificial intelligence systems heavily depends on facial features such as eyebrows, eyes, and foreheads. This dependence introduces a limitation as ...

Accumulating research in embodied cognition highlights the essential role of human bodies in knowledge learning and development. Hand movement is one of the most applied body motions in the collaborative ideation task when students co-construct ...

The study of children’s gestures has proved useful in understanding learning and conceptual development in subjects such as mathematics but has not yet been carried out in computing education. This paper presents an analysis of the way in which ...

• Use of extracts from spontaneous speech to investigate boundary perception.
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This paper investigates the use of prosodic, gestural, and syntactic information in the perception of boundaries in extracts of spontaneous speech in British English. Experiment 1 aimed at investigating the effect of prosody on naive ...

In this paper, we propose a taxonomy for the classification of children’s gestural input elicited from spatial puzzle play in VR hand tracking. The taxonomy builds on the existing manipulative gesture taxonomy in human-computer interaction, and offers ...

Teaching via lecture video has become the defacto standard for remote education, but videos make it difficult to interpret instructors’ nonverbal referencing to the content. This is problematic, as nonverbal cues are essential for students to follow and ...

• Gesture or gaze behaviors can be employed for predicting information usefulness.

Finding useful health information should be the highest priority when identifying health information. Predicting information usefulness will significantly improve the effectiveness and efficiency of health information identification, ...