Together with the Microsoft Kinect hardware device, the
latest Natural Interface Programming is applied in this project
to facilitate hand gesture detection and recognition for children
with autism to act as dolphin trainers in the Virtual Dolphinarium.
Fig. 6(a) shows a hand gesture of greeting and Fig. 6(b)
shows a child with autism using the greeting gesture to communicate
with a virtual pink dolphin. Fig. 7 shows another child with autism serving as a dolphin trainer with hand gesture to
control a dolphin show