Today I read a paper titled “HoloHands: Kinect Control of Optical Tweezers”
The abstract is:
The increasing number of applications for holographic manipulation techniques has sparked the development of more accessible control interfaces
Here, we describe a holographic optical tweezers experiment that is controlled by gestures which are detected by a Microsoft Kinect
We demonstrate that this technique can be used to calibrate the tweezers using the Stokes Drag method and compare this to automated calibrations
We also show that multiple particle manipulation can be handled
This is a promising new line of research for gesture-based control that could find applications in a wide variety of experimental situations