>gesture-recognition function/ haptic technology
UB (University at Buffalo's Virtual Reality Lab) researchers say their "Fingertip Digitizer," which users wear on the tip of the index finger, can transfer to the virtual world the meaning and intent of common hand gestures, such as pointing, wagging the finger, tapping in the air or other movements that can be used to direct the actions of an electronic device, much like a mouse directs the actions of a personal computer, but with greater precision.
What's more, the Fingertip Digitizer can transfer to personal computers very precise information about the physical characteristics of an object -- and even can sense the shape and size of a human gland or tumor -- when a user taps, scratches, squeezes, strokes or glides a finger over the surface of the object.
>University at Buffalo's Virtual Reality Laboratory:
http://www.vrlab.buffalo.edu
~Can "fingertip digitizers" be placed on one's nose, toes, elbows... any pointy body-part that moves (heh) or on expressive tools like paintbrushes and pencils? (I may be unclear on the concept.)
Will classical musicians (dancers, pornstars) someday have their performances "recorded" through devices like fingertip digitizers?
Fingertip digitizers are not so much about recording the unique gestures of pointy-bits but of using one's pointy gestures to access e-mail, run computer programs etc.?
Posted by Stubbornson at July 27, 2006 04:00 PM