We think that hand pose estimation technologies with a camera should be developed for character conversion systems from sign languages with a not so high performance terminal. Fingernail positions can be used for getting finger information which can’t be obtained from outline information. Therefore, we decided to construct a practical fingernail detection system. The previous fingernail detecti...

Food-handlers with poor personal hygiene working in food-service establishments could be potential sources of infection due to pathogenic organisms. The study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of bacteria and intestinal parasites among 127 food-handlers working in the cafeterias of the University of Gondar and the Gondar Teachers Training College, Gondar, Ethiopia. Fingernail contents ...

Shear and normal forces from fingertip contact with a surface are measured by external camera images of the fingernail. Due to mechanical interaction between the surface, fingertip bone, and fingernail, regions of tension or compression are set up that result in reddening or whitening due to blood flow. The effect is quantitative enough to serve as a transducer of fingertip force. Due to indivi...

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). CHI 2013 Extended Abstracts, April 27–May 2, 2013, Paris, France. ACM 978-1-4503-1952-2/13/04. Abstract Fingers are an important interface both to the physical and the digital world. We propose research on artificial fingernails which contain tiny displays and sensors. These fingernail displays greatly supplement other input and output channels, offerin...

Marijuana use as well as abuse is a significant public health and public safety concern in the United States and using hair to identify marijuana users and abusers has been gaining acceptance in a number of venues including workplace, court ordered, and substance abuse treatment monitoring. After the presentation of a fully validated 2-dimensional gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry met...