4/21/2010

What did we do this week:

This week we finally nailed down the interactions and gestures that we are using for the Kinect system.  The mouse is tracked with the right hand while the left hand does the clicking and other gestures:

left hand straight: click

left hand up: right click

left hand down: double click

left hand right: alt-tab

These gestures were run through a user study with 10 users and the report was written up.  The new system was much better received than the old system so that was encouraging.  The picture below is the template that we had users click on in MS Paint for the user study.

Problems:

The lack of precision from the Kinect is still a problem.  The hand tracking is pretty jittery but unfortunately that is just not something that we can fix in the current time frame.

Project Status: 

The project is entering its final phase.  We are on schedule to be able to deliver a system that will allow users to control the windows environment.  Third party application support is questionable.

New Ideas:

No new ideas.  It's a little too late for that.