Real-time, static and dynamic hand gesture recognition aords users the ability to interact with computers

in more natural and intuitive ways. The hand can be used to communicate much more information by itself

compared to computer mice, joysticks, etc. allowing a greater number of possibilities for computer interaction.

The purpose of this work was to design, develop and study a practical framework for real-time gesture recognition

that can be used in a variety of human-computer interaction applications with the aim of developing a prototype

system for controlling Microsoft PowerPointTMpresentations.