While looking for suitable research to develop the project I started to delve further into looking at human hand gestures. As I recovered papers and journals related to gesture it became apparent that many researchers were exploring the potential of gesture as a means of emotive communication.
The name 'Picard' was referenced regularly and following these references led me to one of the most important pieces of literature I had found thus far: Rosalind Picrard's 'Affective Computing'. This book, considered by many to be the magnum opus of the field, lays down a comprehensive foundation for the research into the field of emotive computer interaction.
Picard describes Affective Computing as the study of 'computing that relates to, arises from, or influences emotions'. Essentially, she explains that now that computers have the ability to register and interpret human emotion, we should be looking to how we can design software with emotion at the heart of the user experience.
I felt this to be a very interesting research field and that it properly captured what I wished to explore with the Leap Motion. Picard's work articulated the research field that I wished to explore and it became an invaluable resource for the duration of the project.
A shorter Affective Computing article by Picard can be found here: http://affect.media.mit.edu/pdfs/95.picard.pdf
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