Collaborators : Ruoxiao Sun, Genggeng Wu

In this project, we propose to build a physical interactive device that uses the hand gesture input to select the stroke style and change the stroke weight to paint on the p5.js canvas screen.

Brainstorming Design Ideas

As per the specifications of Project 1, we brainstormed over number of ideas. We finally narrowed down to applications using the hand gestures as input. Below are different applications we brainstormed on,

1. Hand gesture recognition used as the sign language for deaf and dumb.

(Sign language has use of touchpoints on face too, making it tedious to have physical device for sensing. Computer vision recognition maybe better suited for the application.)

1. Showing moods (subtle emotions/subconscious behavior) using hand gestures.

(Subtle emotion are mixture of lot of factors alongwith handgestures, such as facial expression recognition etc. Computer vision maybe better suited for the same.)

1. Using hand gestures to draw interactive images for fun on p5.js canvas.

(Doable with physical device.)

1. Different gestures for different stroke styles and stroke weight to paint on p5.js canvas**.**

(Final choice, doable with physical hand gesture sensor, Found interesting)

Project Proposal