HCI & gestural computing is a very important and active area of research. BTW it's also my field of work. I was taking issue with what I (and quite a few of my colleagues) felt was a demo cobbled together using existing technologies for applause lines. There was nothing novel in it, except that it was presented as a "package".
It'd have been great if Pranav had researched a completely new modality of recognizing gestures, using Wi-Fi signals for example, or EMG - and that would have been befitting of an MIT Ph.D!
It'd have been great if Pranav had researched a completely new modality of recognizing gestures, using Wi-Fi signals for example, or EMG - and that would have been befitting of an MIT Ph.D!
My 2 cents worth.