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A sensor-based feet motion recognition of graphical user interface controls

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Motion sensing has now become one of the crucial parts of modern life. The tech products for entertainment create huge competition in the modern market, with the front runners such as game and handset manufacturers. Users can use their own bodies to control the systems without Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) and Graph User Interfaces (GUIs). With many benefits, the technologies of NUI is getting more and more important, which also are usually accompanied by the sensor developments. Hence, system designers uses the sensors on the embedded platforms used to develop the system devices for different body movement control interfaces, such as using the gravitational sensor to control the systems or using touchscreen detection. However most of the body movement is restricted to the hand portion for the system platform, making it not as dynamic as the traditional monitor consoles. Thus, this restriction decreases the multitude and availability of controlling modes in system devices. In this study, a sensor-based gait recognition was proposed, in order to provide a novel natural user interface for control systems except the operating modes of gesture.

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The authors would like to thank the National Science Council of the Republic of China, Taiwan for supporting this research under Contract NSC 101-2628-E-194-003-MY3, 101-2221-E-197-008-MY3 and 102-2219-E-194-002. This study is also conducted under the Institute for Information Industry which is subsidized by the Ministry of Economy Affairs of the Republic of China.

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  1. Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, 701, Taiwan

    Hua-Pei Chiang & Yueh-Min Huang

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, 621, Taiwan

    Chin-Feng Lai

  3. Smart Network System Institute, Institute for Information Industry, Taipei, 105, Taiwan

    Ying-Hsun Lai

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Chiang, HP., Lai, CF., Lai, YH. et al. A sensor-based feet motion recognition of graphical user interface controls. Multimed Tools Appl 75, 14125–14141 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-2615-4

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