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WiDraw: Enabling Hands-free Drawing in the Air on Commodity WiFi Devices

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WiDraw: Enabling Hands-free Drawing in the Air on Commodity WiFi Devices
This paper demonstrates that it is possible to leverage WiFi signals from commodity mobile devices to enable hands-free drawing in the air. While prior solutions require the user to hold a wireless transmitter, or require custom wireless hardware, or can only determine a pre-defined set of hand gestures, this paper introduces WiDraw, the first hand motion tracking system using commodity WiFi cards, and without any user wearables. WiDraw harnesses the Angle-of-Arrival values of incoming wireless signals at the mobile device to track the user’s hand trajectory. We utilize the intuition that whenever the user’s hand occludes a signal coming from a certain direction, the signal strength of the angle representing the same direction will experience a drop. Our software prototype using commodity wireless cards can track the user’s hand with a median error lower than 5 cm. We use WiDraw to implement an in-air handwriting application that allows the user to draw letters, words, and sen...
Li Sun, Souvik Sen, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Kyu-H
Added 14 Apr 2016
Updated 14 Apr 2016
Type Journal
Year 2015
Where MOBICOM
Authors Li Sun, Souvik Sen, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Kyu-Han Kim
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