EXPRESit: Interactive messaging via gestures

Text communication or messaging is devoid of emotional expression, gesture and intonation. As a result text communication has become a robotic conversation between human beings. People uses various applications like, Facebook Messenger, Viber, WhatsApp etc. for the purpose of messaging, where they follow the traditional system of writing messages and sending to the receivers. This paper, presents a new idea of messaging through gestures which is one of the primary elements of interaction. The message will be produced through the gestures that the sender will make. If, the sender shows a ‘thumbs up’ gesture, a text or emoticon is generated and sent to the receiver. One of the best features of our system is, it can generate Bengali messages. The system can recognize ‘thumbs up’ gesture which is converted to “???”, means ‘Well Done’ and sent to the receiver. We have evaluated our designed prototype and got satisfactory results.