Designing a Kinect Camera-Based API to Detect Qualities of Movement toSupport Gestural Interaction

Despite enormous advances in technology, digital interfaces continue to rely on text and image based
communication, demonstrating a lack of support for full-body sensory engagement, and downplaying
the body’s role in communication and experience. This dependence on visual modes of input and
output relies heavily on an individual’s attention, presenting problems for people performing tasks
such as walking or driving. There is currently much work being done on gestural movement interaction
as an alternative input method with most research addressing functional or task-oriented movement.
These approaches, however, neglect the semantic and expressive qualities of movement which
constitute an alternative language for interaction. The proposed internship is part of an ongoing
investigation of the ways in which embodied meaning is attributed to photographic content through the
use of movement-based tagging. This internship will focus on the development of a photo tagging
application utilizing a Microsoft© Kinect Camera to capture users’ movements….

Faculty Supervisor:

Thecla Schiphorst

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Partner:

Reality Controls

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

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