Z-Touch - Zooming

Validation level: 4. Other peer-reviewed paper publication

Z-touch, a multi-touch table that can sense the approximate postures of fingers or hands in the proximity of the tabletop’s surface. Users can simultaneously control zooming and scrolling by pointing a finger and varying its height. The zooming level of the map is controlled by the proximity of the finger to the surface.

3D hand gesture interaction multi-touch gesture Gesture interaction
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Evaluation
Finger angle detection. The system can detect the finger angles by matching the appearance of finger postures in laser plane images obtained at different heights.