International Journal of Engineering Research in Computer Science and Engineering (IJERCSE)

User Defined Hand Gesture Recognition for Android Smart Phones Using Accelerometer

Author : Radhaprasad D. Borkar ¹ Dr. J. A. Laxminarayana ²

Date of Publication :7th June 2016

Abstract: User experience has come up as an equally important aspect as performance in consumer electronics especially in mobile phones. A lot of research is being made in order to simplify human machine interaction so that the overall activity completion time is minimized subsequently. Today’s smart phones come with various technologies such as fingerprint recognition, proximity sensing, motion sensing etc in order to provide their customers a better experience which is closely related to the physical world. Most of the smart phones today are loaded with inertial sensors like gyroscopes, magnetometers or accelerometers that can sense the motion of the device in 3D. This technology has been successfully used in games providing real world simulation of the events and actions to the user. In this paper we propose a user friendly hand gesture recognition for android smart phones based on the readings of built-in 3-axial accelerometer. In this process we have designed an android application that allows users to set some easy gestures to open frequently used apps such as Phone, Contacts, Camera, Gallery etc. For Example, When the user performs a predefined gesture such as placing a phone onto his ears triggers the call for the user selected contact.

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