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The rapidly growing interest in interactive three-dimensional(3D) computer environments highly recommend the hand gesture as one of their interaction modalities. Among several factors constituting a hand gesture, hand movement pattern is spatiotemporally variable and informative, but its automatic recognition is not trivial.
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Nam et al. (1996) studied this question.