Proceedings of Gesture Workshop '96

Philip A Harling and Alistair D N Edwards (Eds.)

Gesture is an important element of human interaction and is increasingly becoming feasible as a part of human-computer interation. While there is a lot of research under way, there are few possibilities for distribution of results of this work. The purpose of the workshop was to bring together researchers working on gesture-based interfaces and gestural interaction and to provide a forum for presentation and exchange of ideas and research currently in progress.

Progress in Gestural Interaction encompasses all aspects of gestural interaction, including:

• what are gestures?
• appropriateness of gestures used in interfaces
• interactional issues
• coarticulation and the segmentation problem
• the applicability of gesture-based interaction to interfaces and applications
• suitable applications
• sign-language recognition
• focus on the techniques and algorithms used in recognition and segmentation of manual gestures

Papers are presented from the UK. France, Germany, Italy, USA and Ireland to provide an international viewpoint and the book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of gestural interation, human-computer interaction, multi-modal interfaces, automatic sign language inter-pretation and pattern recognition. It could also be a useful supplementary text for courses on multi-modal human-computer interaction.

Ordering details

The proceedings are published by Springer Verlag, and available directly from the University of York

The price is £30; plus postage and packing.

Postage and packing:

• UK: £1.56
• Continental Europe: £2.55
• USA: £4.96
• Japan: £4.49

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• bank transfer

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Alistair D N Edwards
Department of Computer Science
University of York
York
England
YO1 5DD

fax: +44 (0) 1904 432767

email name: alistair email domain: cs.york.ac.uk

See also GW '97!