A Developer-Oriented Visual Model for Upper-Body Gesture Characterization

This paper focuses on a facilitated and intuitive representation of upper-body gestures for developers. The representation is based on the user motion parameters, particularly the rotational and translational components of body segments during a gesture. The developed static representation aims to provide a rapid visualization of the complexity for each body segment involved in the gesture for static representations. The model and algorithms used to produce the representation have been applied to a dataset of 10 representative gestures to illustrate the model.

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