Gesture recognition

Exercise 4: Gesture and Gaze in Conversational Storytelling In order to make their narrative more plausible and detailed, many will use more than just a verbal account to illustrate their stories. Instead, they use gazes and gestures. In conversational storytelling, which is a collaborative event, gestures have meaningful functions that are tied to the description of the story. Simply defined, a gesture is the movement of the body that expresses a thought or feeling. In the video-recorded…

Later, when the mom finished listening to her son, she watched her daughter run and gave her a thumbs-up sign, another emblem. The most common nonverbal communication gestures I noticed were various affect displays. Because everyone does these automatically, most people don’t realize when they are doing them. Another type of gesture that was easy to identify were illustrators. This type of nonverbal communication technique varies in use depending on a person’s culture. Like affect displays,…

Many people have come to the conclusion that gestures and body languages are natural for humans and it is considered to be a universal language. It can be debated that gestures are part of speaking and assists humans to understand more of what is being communicated. Like when giving directions, a vast majority of people will not only describe the destination’s route with their words, but would additionally use their hands to display the curves of the route suggested. Arika Okrent, a linguistic…

Techblades are technologically advanced blades for fighting. Most look like normal swords, however they possess many different aspects that are not 'normal'. Bio-recognition is a very common type of weapon enhancement. While this may cost extra, this can be very beneficial during the harsh war times. When you have your blade created with Bio-recognition it can only recognize you as the owner. When you handle the sword it will automatically start to glow, the blade with self sharpen, and it will…

Betrayal and Competition Today's entrepreneurs consider technology as the holy grail of development and success. Any venture that an individual goes into today must include a revolutionary technological aspect if they are to succeed. Seeing as how this knowledge is common amongst entrepreneurs, an aspect of competition arises in the market. Ambition and passion for success override everything else in this business, as is evident in today’s tech world. For instance, Facebook, what is now a…

This five-month exploratory qualitative study using the My Voice IOS application in special education classes in two Toronto secondary schools sought to assess the degree of attention student pay to their work, motivation levels of students with special needs to use this technology and identify factors that have the greatest influence on integrating technology in to the curriculum. My Voice is an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) app for students with memory and communication…

Introduction Speech recognition is a computer software that operates computers to distinguish speech and translate it into text. The term recognition refers to the software that recognize or identify the sounds of the speaker rather than the exact words the speaker is saying. It provides people with synchronized captions on recorded videos, television shows and movies. Speech recognition can be found anywhere and many people today are familiar with it. It can be found in Google Chrome,…

delayed and attenuated copies. These speech copies originate from the reflections of surrounding walls or objects. This phenomenon of reverberation reduces speech intelligibility and degrades the performance of hearing aids and Automatic Speech recognition (ASR) systems [1]- [4]. The resulted speech distortion can be contributed by two distinct components of reverberation - the early reflections which cause the coloration of speech, and the late reflections that contribute to echo and other…

change due to iris aging, diet or human health conditions. The changing of iris features creates the mismatch in comparison phase to determine either genuine or not genuine. Therefore, to determine genuinely, this study proposes a new model of iris recognition using combinational approach of a split block and particle swarm optimization (PSO) in selecting the best crypt among unique iris features template. The split block has been used in this study to separate the image with the part that very…

Innovation The newest technology innovation I have recently read about featured bendable 3D-printed structures. The creators call the process 4D printing because the structures change over the fourth dimension, which is time. This happens when subjected to stimuli, which in this case is heat. “Engineers from Massachusetts Technology, (MIT) and Singapore University of Technology have devised this new fabrication that uses ultraviolet light to print these structures that…