The use of the mouse and keyboard has long been our only sense of interaction with the computer. What remains unexplored is the infinite possibility of an intuitive 1:1 human interaction.
We investigate the use of a webcam that understands and recognizes our gestures that can take us a level up in the field of Human Computer Interaction. Similar to the famous Sixth Sense Mouse, however, without the use of specialized marked gloves, but with bare hands.
Largely accurate, our product will allow you to take control of an on-screen cursor, replacing conventional use of the mouse and keyboard, by simple hand gestures. While this may seem cumbersome, such products have found support from the more artistic community, while being a favourite in the gaming world.
Applications of such a product are myriad. Intuitive gestures like swiping your hand to change a powerpoint slide or an artist who may want to use his hands to work on softwares like Photoshop for a more realistic, comfortable and accurate motion, are a few of them. Often, the feel of reality is lost, and NinjaMouse, brings back exactly that.
Made famous by the Microsoft’s Kinect, this experience is till date, a costly affair for most people, with the product being expensive. NinjaMouse will use a simple webcam and a high end image processing software to form a layer at the OS level, allowing users to have
this experience for any software.
We have also kept in mind, scalability and seamless integration as one of our prime goals. Our project is going to be developed in Python, thus making it easily usable on Linux and Windows systems. The social impact of such a product cannot be ignored at any stage. This system can be extended to the use of one’s head gestures to do almost the same functions, thus enabling physically challenged or injured people to use the computer without any external help.