Consumer price data-glove for sign language recognition

A data-glove available for full degrees of freedom of a human hand is a key device to handle sign language on information systems. This paper presents an innovative intelligent data-glove named StrinGlove. StrinGlove obtains full degrees of freedom of human hand using 24 Inductcoders and 9 contact sensors, and encodes hand postures into posture codes on its own DSP. Additionally, the simple structure of the glove decreases the price. Several sign experts tried the prototype and the results show that the prototype has sufficient recognition rate as a sensor unit and sufficient comfortableness as a glove to wear.