Abstract
Recently, there are an increasing number of applications that use gesture recognition as interface. Most of them are specialized in recognition of large body motions. As can be seen in sign languages and hand signals, hand gestures can express rich information with small motions. Although there are many studies on recognition of hand gestures, existing hand shape recognition methods have several problems to be used for home automation. Therefore, the wearable wrist contour sensor device has been proposed in previous studies. However, discussions about how to design the hand gesture interface are insufficient. In this paper, we propose real time hand gesture interfaces for web browsing. Usability testing reveals that pronation is to be assigned as a variable configurator and hand shape is to be assigned as an operation switcher.
