Whiteside project proposal

  I believe i want to do a project that involves making an interface that can be mounted on your arm and tracks the motion of your hand through small pegs that surround your hand but does not quite touch it, the sensors i think i would use is probably be optical sensors on 4 pegs that go around the hand.  Have them facing each other to track the 3dimensional movement that the user does with their hand, to avoid overly complex setups i would probably just track the top and palm of the hand.  the idea of this is to allow a user to feel like an interaction with something is completely natural and not like they have to do something extra in order to interact.  What i mean by this is say you are interacting with a computer and you are using a mouse, you have to keep track of where the mouse is so it doesn't fall off like a table or you run out of movement space with your arm, and it is not as clunky as say using a glove of some sort where it interferes with you natural interactions.