Basic study toward automatic generation of glove-type command input device with optimal number of sensors

摘要

Data-gloves are one of the most essential devices for VR systems. Although most of conventional data-gloves are designed to capture "analogue" hand postures, most of information systems require just "digital" hand postures corresponding to commands. This paper proposed a method to calculate a data-glove with optimal number of sensors to obtain given set of "digital" hand postures. The authors applied the proposed method to JSL. The result tells that a data-glove with just eight sensors can obtain all hand postures given in JSL.