A Survey on Multi-touch Gesture Recognition and Multi-touch Frameworks

The multi-touch gesture recognition problem has drawn great attention from the human-computer interaction (HCI) community, mainly since multi-touch surfaces and other touch-capable devices reached the mainstream market. In the past decade, several multi-touch gesture recognition techniques and multi-touch frameworks were proposed. When we started our research on touch-based gestures recognition, we identified some surveys focused on computer vision or accelerometers. However, in several multi-touch surface devices, the multi-touch sensor is the only input method available. We here present a survey on touch-based gestures recognition techniques and frameworks, and propose an extended set of requirements such techniques and frameworks should meet in order to provide better support to multi-touch surface applications.