Gesture recognition

Programming language

Detector

Artificial intelligence

User experience design

Telecommunications

Physics

Gesture

Post-WIMP

Interaction technique

Biology

Motion (physics)

Optics

User interface

Human–computer interaction

Computer science

Agronomy

Controller (irrigation)

WIMP

Natural user interface

Focus (optics)

User interface design

Software

Sensors

Modern hardware and software development has led to an evolution of user interfaces from command-line to natural user interfaces for virtual immersive environments. Gestures imitating real-world interaction tasks increasingly replace classical two-dimensional interfaces based on Windows/Icons/Menus/Pointers (WIMP) or touch metaphors. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to survey the state-of-the-art Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) techniques with a focus on the special field of three-dimensional interaction. This includes an overview of currently available interaction devices, their applications of usage and underlying methods for gesture design and recognition. Focus is on interfaces based on the Leap Motion Controller (LMC) and corresponding methods of gesture design and recognition. Further, a review of evaluation methods for the proposed natural user interfaces is given.

Review of Three-Dimensional Human-Computer Interaction with Focus on the Leap Motion Controller