Natural User Interfaces for Exploring and Modeling Medical Images and Defining Gesture Description Technology

Abstract

AbstractA Natural User Interface (NUI) is a type of human-machine interaction based on the automatic analysis of the user’s natural behavior. These human actions are interpreted by the machine as commands that control system operations. Natural behavior is a group of activities performed by humans in everyday life to interact with their animated and unanimated environment. The main purpose of using the NUI is to simplify the access to the computer. NUI is to support intuitive interaction methods that are very easy to teach. Users who have never been exposed to a particular application before should, with help of the NUI, handle it much faster than if they were to use a traditional graphic user interface (GUI) with a mouse or keyboard. This chapter discusses the currently available interfaces for image communication between humans and computers with their use in practical applications and mobile devices, but it also presents an innovative GDL technology. The authors of this monograph have proposed the GDL technology which allows users not only to communicate with computers, but also supports sophisticated analyses of human motions and gestures e.g. during navigation, behavioural analyses, the psychological interpretation of gestures, and also in physical (exercise) therapy.KeywordsAugmented RealityGesture RecognitionHand GestureNatural User InterfaceLeap MotionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.