A glove-type input device, which can measure hand postures of human beings directly, is one of essential device to develop Virtual Reality environment. The authors have been developing a data-glove which would be able to capture hand postures according to user's demand with the minimum number of sensors. Our previous research estimated the data-glove with six sensors could measure all hand postures for Japanese Finger spellings. Thus, this paper proposes a prototype with six sensors and evaluate whether the prototype glove sensor can distinguish all hand postures of Japanese Finger spellings. This evaluation indicated that dataglove with fewer sensors than conventional number of sensors could distinguish hand postures exactly.
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