A touchless passive Infrared gesture sensor.

Wojtczuk, Piotr; Binnie, David; Armitage, Alistair; Chamberlain, Timothy; Giebeler, Carsten

Abstract

A sensing device for a touchless, hand gesture, user interface based on an inexpensive passive infrared pyroelectric detector array is presented. The 2 x 2 element sensor responds to changing infrared radiation generated by hand movement over the array. The sensing range is from a few millimetres to tens of centimetres. The low power consumption (< 50 μW) enables the sensor’s use in mobile devices and in low energy applications. Detection rates of 77% have been demonstrated using a prototype system that differentiates the four main hand motion trajectories – up, down, left and right. This device allows greater non-contact control capability without an increase in size, cost or power consumption over existing on/off devices.

Citation

Wojtczuk, P., Binnie, D., Armitage, A., Chamberlain, T., & Giebeler, C. (2013). A touchless passive Infrared gesture sensor. In Proceeding of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Technology (67-68). https://doi.org/10.1145/2508468.2514713

• Conference Name: UIST '13 Adjunct Proceedings of the adjunct publication of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
• Start Date: Oct 8, 2013
• End Date: Oct 11, 2013
• Acceptance Date: Sep 9, 1999
• Publication Date: Oct 8, 2013
• Deposit Date: Jun 10, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 10, 2016
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 67-68
• Book Title: Proceeding of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Technology
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-2406-9
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2508468.2514713
• Keywords: Touchless interfaces; dynamic hand gesture; gesture recognition; hand motion trajectories; infrared motion sensors; passive infrared sensors; pyroelectric infrared
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/25084868.2514713