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HCI systems are often equipped with gestural interfaces drawing on a predefined set of admitted gestures. We provide an assessment of the fitness of such gesture vocabularies in terms of their learnability and naturalness. This is done by example of rivaling gesture vocabularies of the museum information system WikiNect. In this way, we do not only provide a procedure for evaluating gesture vocabularies, but additionally contribute to design criteria to be followed by the gestures.
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Mehler, A., vor der Brück, T., Lücking, A. (2014). Comparing Hand Gesture Vocabularies for HCI. In: Kurosu, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Advanced Interaction Modalities and Techniques. HCI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8511. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07230-2_8
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