The Gesture Interpretation Module

Abstract

Summary: Humans make often conscious and unconscious gestures, which reflect their mind, thoughts and the way these are formulated. These inherently complex processes can in general not be substituted by a corresponding verbal utterance that has the same semantics (McNeill, 1992). Gesture, which is a kind of body language, contains important information on the intention and the state of the gesture producer. Therefore, it is an important communication channels in human computer interaction. In the following we describe first the state of the art in gesture recognition. The next section describes the gesture interpretation module. After that we present the experiments and results for recognition of user states. We summarize our results in the last section.