eRing: Multiple Finger Gesture Recognition with one Ring Using an Electric Field

Abstract

Since gestures are one of the natural interaction modalities between humans they also represent a promising interaction modality for human computer interaction. Finger rings provide an unobtrusive way to detect hand and finger gestures if they are able to detect a large variety of gestures involving hands and multiple fingers. One method that could be used to detect such gestures with a single ring is electric field sensing. In this paper we present an early prototype, called eRing, which uses this method and evaluate its capability to detect different finger- and hand-gestures via user study.

@inproceedings{Wilhelm2015,
 author = {Wilhelm, Mathias and Krakowczyk, Daniel and Trollmann, Frank and Albayrak, Sahin},
 title = {eRing: Multiple Finger Gesture Recognition with One Ring Using an Electric Field},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2Nd International Workshop on Sensor-based Activity Recognition and Interaction},
 series = {WOAR '15},
 year = {2015},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-3454-9},
 location = {Rostock, Germany},
 pages = {7:1--7:6},
 articleno = {7},
 numpages = {6},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2790044.2790047},
 doi = {10.1145/2790044.2790047},
 acmid = {2790047},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {capacitive sensing, electric field sensing, finger gesture recognition, finger ring, gesture recognition, ubiquitous interaction device},
}

Authors:

Mathias Wilhelm, Daniel Krakowczyk, Frank Trollmann, Sahin Albayrak

Category:

Conference Paper

Year:

2015

Location:

Proceedings of the 2Nd International Workshop on Sensor-based Activity Recognition and Interaction (WOAR'15)