Curiosity: Engineering Empathy

Engineering empathy 12 August 2021 – Deborah Minors In search of ways to help his father recover from injuries suffered in a motorbike accident, Nabeel Vandayar enrolled at Wits to study medicine. He soon switched to biomedical engineering after realising that this field holds promising solutions to his father’s speech and mobility challenges.  The field of biomedical engineering would be poorer if Nabeel Vandayar, 26, had pursued his boyhood… Continue reading Curiosity: Engineering Empathy

Hand Gesture Recognition

Research Abstract—The design and development of a low cost handgesture recognition computer interface, using a standard laptopwebcam is presented. The purpose of the system is to recogniseboth static and dynamic hand gestures from a user in real-timeand perform basic macro instructions on the Windows operatingsystem. The calibration and gesture recognition processes arediscussed. The system is… Continue reading Hand Gesture Recognition