TY - JOUR
T1 - KIND-DAMA: A modular middleware for Kinect-like device data management
AU - Gentile, Antonio
AU - Sorce, Salvatore
AU - Milazzo, Fabrizio
AU - Gentile, Vito
AU - Sorce, Salvatore
AU - Gentile, Antonio
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In the last decades, we have witnessed a growing interest toward touchless gestural user interfaces. Among other reasons, this is due to the large availability of different low-cost gesture acquisition hardware (the so-called âKinect-like devicesâ). As a consequence, there is a growing need for solutions that allow to easily integrate such devices within actual systems. In this paper, we present KIND-DAMA, an open and modular middleware that helps in the development of interactive applications based on gestural input. We first review the existing middlewares for gestural data management. Then, we describe the proposed architecture and compare its features against the existing similar solutions we found in the literature. Finally, we present a set of studies and use cases that show the effectiveness of our proposal in some possible real-world scenarios.
AB - In the last decades, we have witnessed a growing interest toward touchless gestural user interfaces. Among other reasons, this is due to the large availability of different low-cost gesture acquisition hardware (the so-called âKinect-like devicesâ). As a consequence, there is a growing need for solutions that allow to easily integrate such devices within actual systems. In this paper, we present KIND-DAMA, an open and modular middleware that helps in the development of interactive applications based on gestural input. We first review the existing middlewares for gestural data management. Then, we describe the proposed architecture and compare its features against the existing similar solutions we found in the literature. Finally, we present a set of studies and use cases that show the effectiveness of our proposal in some possible real-world scenarios.
KW - Kinect-like devices
KW - Software
KW - gestural data management
KW - gesture interaction middleware
KW - Kinect-like devices
KW - Software
KW - gestural data management
KW - gesture interaction middleware
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10447/264976
UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-024X
M3 - Article
VL - 48
SP - 141
EP - 160
JO - SOFTWARE-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE
JF - SOFTWARE-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE
SN - 0038-0644
ER -