Abstract
In the last few years, the use of gestural data has become a key enabler for human-computer interaction (HCI) applications. The growing diffusion of low-cost acquisition devices has thus led to the development of a class of middleware aimed at ensuring a fast and easy integration of such devices within the actual HCI applications. The purpose of this paper is to present a modular middleware for gestural data and devices management. First, we describe a brief review of the state of the art of similar middleware. Then, we discuss the proposed architecture and the motivation behind its design choices. Finally, we present a use case aimed at demonstrating the potential uses as well as the limitations of our middleware.
Highlights
Many works in psychology and social science have shown the relevance of gestures as a mean for communications among human beings [1]
The goal of this paper is to propose novel modular middleware aimed at the management of gestural data
In this paper we have described a modular middleware which aims at making the development of gesture interaction applications easy
Summary
Many works in psychology and social science have shown the relevance of gestures as a mean for communications among human beings [1]. Computing (UC) and Internet of Things (IoT) paradigms, which obviously includes the modalities with which the users interact with their surrounding environment and in particular the ways they access sensors and visualization devices [10, 11] In this sense, recent works in HCI have focused their attention on the development of a class of middleware aimed at the management of gestural data and the communication with the related input devices [12, 13]. Gesture management middleware should offer a fast solution to the problem of connecting the input devices to the end-user gesture-based applications It should act as a transparent layer able to manage communication towards the devices, to unify heterogeneous gestural data, and to provide easy access to the same data through software services.
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