OpenGesture: a low-cost authoring framework for gesture and speech based application development and learning analytics

Author: Worsley, M., Johnston, M. & Blikstein, P.
Year: 2011
Project: Multimodal Learning Analytics
Type: Refereed Conference Paper/Poster/Demo (with Proceedings)
Conference/Journal: IDC 2011
Citation:

Marcelo Worsley, Michael Johnston, and Paulo Blikstein. 2011. OpenGesture: a low-cost authoring framework for gesture and speech based application development and learning analytics. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 254-256.

Abstract

In this paper, we present an application framework for enabling education practitioners and researchers to develop interactive, multi-modal applications. These applications can be designed using typical HTML programming, and will enable a larger audience to make applications that incorporate speech recognition, gesture recognition and engagement detection. The application framework uses open-source software and inexpensive hardware that supports both multi-touch and multi-user capabilities.