U of Washington The AllSee prototype is integrated with an off-the-shelf mobile phone. This technology enables new applications such as gesture recognition with the phone still in your pocket.
University of Washington - Mute the song playing on your smartphone in your pocket by flicking your index finger in the air, or pause your "This American Life” podcast with a small wave of the hand. This kind of gesture control for electronics could soon become an alternative to touchscreens and sensing technologies that consume a lot of power and only work when users can see their smartphones and tablets. Related paper: " Bringing Gesture Recognition to All Devices ” University of Washington computer scientists have built a low-cost gesture recognition system that runs without batteries and lets users control their electronic devices hidden from sight with simple hand movements. The prototype, called " AllSee ,” uses existing TV signals as both a power source and the means for detecting a user's gesture command. "This is the first gesture recognition system that can be implemented for less than a dollar and doesn't require a battery,” said Shyam Gollakota , a UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering. "You can leverage TV signals both as a source of power and as a source of gesture recognition. The technology is set to appear April 2-4 at the Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation conference in Seattle.
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