Review of the State-of-the-Art of Data Gloves

Human-machine interaction has been the focus of recent research, with data gloves as one of the approaches gaining popularity for their high accuracy and convenience. This paper summarizes the latest research status of data gloves with a focus on the area of glove-based gesture recognition. The core technology of gesture recognition is described in detail from data processing to classification, and a quantitative analysis of the recent research is conducted. We found that though studies on applications and algorithms are the mainstream, the hardware design also accounts for a pretty large proportion of about 30%. Moreover, the number of gestures, subjects, and algorithms for majority of relevant studies has been summarized.