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HAND GESTURE [3 records]

Record 1 2025-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Simulation (Cybernetic Systems)
  • Collaboration with WIPO
CONT

In particular, [the] system ... can provide the user with options for accessing the images, content, virtual objects, and VR [virtual reality] controls using eye gaze, hand gestures, head movements, and/or other user-based movements within the VR space. For example, a user can generate 3D [tridimensional] drawings in portions of the VR space and interact with such drawings using 2D [bidimensional] and 3D input devices, and tools configured to generate artistic drawings or annotations on drawings or other VR objects.

CONT

In an embodiment, the hand ... may start a training session in a semi-closed position, so it has room to open or close. The speed of the movement of [the] hand ... may depend on information provided by kinematic sensors ... For instance, the kinematic sensors ... may provide a proportional control value to regulate the speed of movement of the hand ... In an embodiment, the kinematic sensors ... provide a value between 0 and 1 to the VR [virtual reality] control module ... which reflects the speed of intended hand movement. If the value is closer to 0, the hand movement is correspondingly slow. If the value is closer to 1, the hand movement is correspondingly fast. In another embodiment, the speed of the movement of the hand ... may depend on a measurement of the EMG [electromyographic] signal provided by the user.

OBS

hand gesture; hand movement : data validated by Canadian subject-field experts from École Polytechnique de Montréal, MasterpieceVR and McGill University.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Simulation (Systèmes cybernétiques)
  • Collaboration avec l'OMPI
CONT

La récupération et l'utilisation de données caractérisant les mouvements physiques d'un individu sont de plus en plus fréquentes dans le domaine de la santé, des jeux vidéo et de la musique. [...] Le système S comprend en outre un moyen de configuration des mouvements reconnus par le terminal T, par exemple un logiciel de configuration. Le moyen de configuration permet d'allouer, à une série de données de mouvement, une commande à destination du terminal T. À titre d'exemple, une série de données de mouvement peut correspondre à un mouvement de la main vers le haut et être associée à une commande d'augmentation du volume sonore.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Simulación (Sistemas cibernéticos)
  • Colaboración con la OMPI
CONT

Se usa [la interfaz de usuario] para capturar el movimiento de la mano y se realiza un código para extraer los datos de interés que para el caso del juego del pato es el ángulo de movimiento de los dedos con respecto al eje X y para el caso del sapo es el ángulo de movimiento de la muñeca con respecto al eje Y […]

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Record 2 2006-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Law
  • Special-Language Phraseology
OBS

The words "offers violence" include any defiant gesture or act that, if completed, would end in violence but do not extend to an insulting or impertinent gesture or act from which violence could not result. For example, a non-commissioned member who throws down arms on parade, but in such a direction that they could not strike a superior officer, could not be deemed to have offered violence within the meaning of this section. On the other hand, the throwing of arms or the pointing of a loaded fire-arm at a superior would amount to offering violence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit militaire
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
OBS

L'expression «montre de la violence» inclut tout geste ou acte de défi qui, exécuté, aboutit à la violence, mais elle n'implique pas un geste insultant ou impertinent ou un acte qui ne conduit pas à la violence. Par exemple, un militaire du rang qui lance ses armes à l'exercice, mais dans une direction telle qu'elles ne peuvent atteindre un officier supérieur, ne peut être accusé d'avoir montré de la violence aux termes du présent article. Par contre, lancer des armes ou pointer une arme à feu chargée dans la direction d'un supérieur équivaut à montrer de la violence.

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-06-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education Theory and Methods
  • Training of Personnel
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

But as online learning becomes more and more popular, educators are warning that a teaching environment without some kind of face-to-face interaction isn’t suited for every kind of degree level or course. For instance, they feel that graduate students are better able to handle the lack of personal interaction than undergraduates who need the sense of community that being on campus offers.

CONT

Recent years have witnessed the birth of a new paradigm for learning environments, animated pedagogical agents. These lifelike autonomous characters cohabit learning environments with students to create rich face to face learning interactions This opens up exciting new possibilities, for example agents can demonstrate complex tasks, employ locomotion and gesture to focus students attention on the most salient aspect of the task at hand and convey emotional responses to the tutorial situation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

Cours, stages, séminaires et practica sont offerts et toutes ces activités de formation combinent l'interaction en face-à-face et en réseau.

Key term(s)
  • interaction en face à face

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Teorías y métodos pedagógicos
  • Capacitación del personal
  • Internet y telemática
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