A Kinect Sensor based Windows Control Interface

Many new concepts have recently been developed for human–computer interfaces. Xbox, introduced by Microsoft, is a game console. Kinect is a low-cost device that supports multiple speakers, a microphone, a red-green-blue camera, and a depth sensor camera for motion recognition. In the beginning, Kinect was developed for Xbox, but then supported various functions for the Windows operating system (OS). Similar to a Smart TV interface, in this study, we propose an intelligent interface for the Windows OS using Microsoft Kinect. Instead of using a mouse or keyboard, the interface helps humans interact with the computer using voice and hand gesture recognition. To interact with our system, users first register their voice commands in our recognition system, and then utilize those registered commands control the Windows OS. Our proposed system also provides scalability and flexibility and was assessed with a high level of recognition rate and user’s satisfaction.