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I have to write a short Flash animation script about the potential future of this by Friday. Apua! Hjälp!

I'm looking forward to the gestural complexity of the ingegnere moderno version.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Nov 14th, 2011 at 03:34:17 PM EST

Before this, the only Finnish gesture I had seen was the threatening fist or a finger pointing directions.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Nov 14th, 2011 at 05:18:53 PM EST
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Interesting idea and a nice first-hack implementation.

I'd like to see a "Yes, Do It" confirmation pattern as well as an immediate "STOP!" over-ride command.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Mon Nov 14th, 2011 at 06:00:36 PM EST
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It's built on Kinect, so I presume face and voice recognition will also be included at some point.

What interests me (though it's not going in the script), is the emergence of a culture-wide gesture language. I doubt that this Finnish effort will be the basis for it, but a common gestural interface with 'machines' seems inevitable.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Nov 15th, 2011 at 05:56:53 AM EST
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Problem is the two guys gesturing at each other within camera range and the system following their "commands."

That way madness lies.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Tue Nov 15th, 2011 at 02:19:39 PM EST
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Or democracy.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Nov 15th, 2011 at 06:46:29 PM EST
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