meeroslav / movement.js

Gesture recognition with JavaScript and HTML5.

Movement.js

Movement.js is library for recognition of basic gestures using JavaScript and HTML5. Demo videos can be found here and here.

How to use it?

You can initialize it by:

Movement.init(callbacks);

The callbacks object can contain the following callbacks:

• movementChanged - callback which will be invoked when the user gesture is changed.
• positionChanged - callback which will be invoked when the user change his position in the visible area.

Both callbacks accept a single argument the new callback/movement.

List of movements

This is list of all gestures which Movement.js can currently recognize:

• STAND
• LEFT_ARM_UP
• RIGHT_ARM_UP
• ARMS_UP
• SQUAT_LEFT_ARM_UP
• SQUAT_RIGHT_ARM_UP
• LEFT_LEG_UP
• SQUAT
• EMPTY
• RIGHT_LEG_UP

All movements are located in the namespace Movement.movements.

List of positions

This is list of all positions which Movement.js supports currently:

• LEFT
• RIGHT
• MIDDLE
• EMPTY

All positions are located in the namespace Movement.positions.

Example

Movement.init({
    positionChanged: function (pos) {
        if (pos === Movement.positions.LEFT) {
            console.log('You\'re in the left part of the visible zone');
        }
    },
    movementChanged: function (mov) {
        if (mov === Movement.movements.RIGHT_LEG_UP) {
            console.log('You\'re kicking?');
        }
    }
});

License

This software is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.