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Gesture-Based Interface Design Development: Hasso Plattner Institute's "Imaginary Phone"

By Rain Noe - May 23, 2011

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Comp Sci professor Patrick Baudisch, leading a team of researchers at Germany's Hasso Plattner Institute, has developed a gesture-based interface that allows users to use their palm as an input device. A wearable camera tracks the position of your fingers in space, and you basically tap out commands on your palm as if it were the surface of, say, your iPhone:

It's similar to MIT's wearable "Sixth Sense" interface design from 2009 but, as the MIT Technology Review has pointed out, Baudisch's system is different in that there's no projected feedback—you'd have to look at your actual phone, placed nearby, for visual cues—and the gestures you'd perform rely on your memory of where the icons are on the actual phone.

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