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ISSN: 2321-8169
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Wear and Click - Glove Mouse

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Chetan Jain, 2Richa Bhadouria, 3Tajinder Kaur

Computer Science and Engineering
Jaypee Institute of Information Technology
NOIDA, India
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[email protected]
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Abstract There are many ways for Human computer interaction. Out of these standard PC mouse has been in use for over 40
years. There are many limitations with the standard mouse. In this paper, a different method of interaction is proposed. For this
Glove Mouse is designed for controlling the mouse movements on computer. The device is used for basic interface tasks like
clicking, enabling and disabling. With the new device, the user can move the mouse cursor around the computer screen by just
moving his hand. User can also perform clicks with this new device. The glove mouse senses the user actions via two types of
sensors: accelerometers and finger contact pads. For processing and transmitting the signals, it uses microcontroller and RF
module. This Novel approach enhances the user experience of interaction with computer even from very large distance.
Keywords- Glove Mouse, Human Computer Interaction, RF module, Microcontroller, Sensors.

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I.

INTRODUCTION

The new generation computer technology is expanding and

surrounding humans and computers communicating as
naturally as a human with other human. There are many
limitations with the standard mouse that it needs a contact
surface for its operation. It does not allow user to operate
computer with comfort. Also people with severe disabilities
also find it difficult to operate computer with standard mouse.
So, motivation of this project was to overcome the
shortcomings of this standard mouse. An alternative for the
standard mouse is a wireless Glove mouse. This device brings
new level of comfort in the lives of people as it does not
require surface for its operation , allows user to interact with a
computer by moving her hand and user can operate system
from fair distance. This device also improves the lives of
people with severe physical disabilities by providing mouse
pointer control comparable to what is available to normal
people. The device can also be used by normal people as it is
an inexpensive device. With the new device, the user moves the
mouse cursor around the computer screen by just moving her
hand. User can also perform clicks with this new device.
This paper is divided into various sections. Section 1
introduces the topic and its objective. Section 2 includes the
methodology and the basic idea of system design, various
components, working of the setup. Then in next section overall
architecture of the system is covered. In the fourth section
detailed implementation design is covered under the headings
Hardware and Software design. Finally the conclusion is drawn
and future aspects along with its applications are discussed.
II. BACKGROUND
A lot of research has been done for making a mouse that
will not require surface for its operations [1][2][3][4].
In [1] research paper wireless mouse is created with the
help of 3 axis accelerometer that will sense the tilt of hand.
This setup consist of 3 axis accelerometer, PIC 16F 886
microcontroller, contact pads, a wireless transceivers, colored
LEDs, glove. The accelerometer reads the tilt of each axis and
outputs each as an analog voltage and sends it to MCU. After

the microcontroller processes the input data then, each of the

voltage value of tilt is converted to digital numbers and
forwards a message to transmitter mounted in glove unit
.wireless communication will take place transmitter and
receiver of the base station.
In [2], mouse has been designed which works by the tilt of
users head. In this they have use Memsic 2125 accelerometer,
BASIC Stamp 2 microprocessor which is a 8-bit 20MHz
microprocessor programmed with a version of the BASIC
language, PBASIC. To operate the head tilt mouse user moves
the mouse cursor around the computer screen by tilting his
head.
In [3] air mouse is made which would not need any contact
surface for its operation. Device will work in two modes 2D
and 3D mode in which they have to find planar and spatial
coordinates for movements of the mouse pointer. It consist of
non-echo ultrasonic system that works at 40 KHz,3 receivers
,micro-controller and one hand held transmitter. Hand held
transmitter is used as mouse in this. Three receivers are paced
at three different corners of screen and then measure distances
from transmitter to their respective receivers and with the help
of these coordinates mouse pointer is created.
In research paper [4] new wearable, real time and user
friendly device for human computer interaction is made. This
system consists of Flex sensors and Accelerometer for sensing
hand gesture, ARM processor and ZigBee module for wireless
transmission. The proposed system makes the use of flex
sensors and accelerometer to sense hand gestures. The ARM
processor will be configured to process the signals received
from flex sensors and accelerometer. The ARM processor will
send the processed data wirelessly by using ZigBee module.
III.

METHODOLOGY

Research work has been carried out with different types of

microcontrollers, accelerometers, wireless modules. The
objective of this project was to make an inexpensive device.
The design of wireless glove mouse consist of two units: base
unit and control unit. Base unit will consist of RF receiver for
wireless communication and USB connector. Control unit will
consist of microcontroller Atmega16L, 3 axis accelerometer,
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and push buttons and RF transmitter for wireless
communication as shown in figure1. The base unit will be
connected to the computer via USB, which acts as the receiver.
Another unit i.e. the control unit will be used by the user as a
Glove Mouse.

Figure 2- Cursor movement/clicks

IV.
Figure 1- Logic map [1]

OVERALL ARCHITECTURE

The overall architecture of the system is shown in figure 3.

It consists of various modules.

This wearable unit will consist of buttons on finger tips for

click, an accelerometer inside the glove for sensing the motion
and getting the direction of motion. This would be connected to
a microcontroller and also a transmitter to communicate
wirelessly to the base unit. The accelerometer reads the tilt of
each axis and outputs each as an analog voltage. Push buttons
are used for enabling and disabling the mouse and for making
left click and right click. RF module is used to provide wireless
communication.
A. Working of setup will be as follow:
The Glove Unit carries Atmega16L, 3-axis accelerometer,
push buttons and RF transmitter. For moving the cursor on the
computer screen user will tilt his/her hand right/left as shown in
figure 2. Tilt will be sensed by accelerometer. In this device,
the 3 axis accelerometer was used.
The 3-axis accelerometer [5] is a low cost accelerometer
that works well with and is connected directly to
microcontroller Atmega16L. Among other things, it senses tilt
and tilt angle. Accelerometer will send information to MCU.
MCU will read input and process the information and convert
analog signal to digital signal. After that MCU send signal to
RF transmitter and RF transmitter and send this signal to RF
receiver. Wireless communication will take place between RF
transmitter and RF receiver. RF receiver that is connected to
computer through USB connector will send this digital signal to
computer and then cursor will move on computer screen. The
embedded push buttons are used to perform clicks and
enabling/disabling the glove mouse and is connected directly
to microcontroller Atmega16L.If user want to perform right/left
click or enable/disable the mouse, user will press push button
that are mounted on fingers. Push button will read this
information to MCU and MCU will send process and transmit
this signal to RF transmitter. Wireless communication will take
place and digital signal will be send to computer and click will
be performed on screen.

Figure 3 - Overall Architecture

A. Accelerometer
Accelerometer is basically used to identify the movements
of hand across the three axis i.e. x-axis, y-axis, z-axis.
Movement of hand causes dynamic acceleration which
produces change in voltage. This reading is provided to
Microcontroller.

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B. Push Buttons
They are used to enable and disable the mouse and to
perform left and right click. This information about the clicks
will be given to Microcontroller.

Right click

left click

transmitter is connected to PD0 (pin 14) and PD1 (pin15) and is

shown in the left bottom of microcontroller. Power supply is
provide to microcontroller. Battery is used to provide to RF
receiver and RF receiver is connected to computer using USB
adapter.

Enabling/Disabling

C. Microcontroller- MCU
MCU [6] will make further processing of signals sent by the
accelerometer and push buttons. After manipulating the signals
according to program logic, it will send the processed data to
RF transmitter module for wireless transmission.
D. RF Module
RF module [7] consists of RF transmitter and RF receiver.
RF transmitter will transmit the data signals wirelessly from
wearable hand glove device to base station RF receiver.
The data will be sent serially via radio frequency. In this
paper, 433 MHz radio frequency radio module is used to send
data serially. Modulating frequency is 433MHz and type is
ASK. Whenever data is to be sent, encoder is used to convert
the parallel data to serial.
E. Translation Software
In this Terminal.exe and PC Control [8] are used as
translation software. They interpret the data received from
control unit and convert it into action (cursor
movement/clicks).
F. PC
Computer is attached to RF receiver through USB adaptor
and computer has translation software. This software interprets
the data received and performs cursor movement on the
computer screen or performs left/right click in the computer
V. IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
Implementation of the proposed system can be discussed
under two heading: Hardware and Software Design.
A. Hardware design
The information from the 3 axis accelerometer is read by
the microcontroller Atmega16L embedded in the tilt glove
mouse and information about right, left clicks and
enabling/disabling is also read by microcontroller. The
microcontroller reads information from the accelerometer and
push buttons, processes it, and sends it to computer wirelessly.
The microcontroller Atmega16L is programmed with C
language. In the hand tilt mouse the RF module. This is a low
cost radio that works well with the microcontroller
Atmega16L. The circuit diagram is shown in Figure. The
accelerometer pin x is connected to PA0 (ADC0 pin 40),
accelerometer pin y to PA1 (ADC1, pin 39), accelerometer pin
z to PA3 (ADC2, pin 38) and is shown in the top right corner of
the figure. The push buttons is connected to pins PB0 (pin1),
PB1 (pin 2), PB2 (pin 3) and is shown in the top left corner of
the figure. Push button at pin1 is for left click, pin 2 is for right
click and pin 3 is for enabling/disabling the glove mouse. RF

Figure 4- Hardware Design

B. Software Design
When RF receiver receives the data from RF transmitter
and it sends data to computer through USB adapter. To
interpret this data and to convert this data into cursor
movement or to perform clicks, translation software is used.
Translation software interprets the data received and converts
into actions. For this MSCOMM32.OCX [7] is used which has
Terminal.exe and PC Control application. Terminal and PC
control are used to establish an initial one-time trust
relationship between RF module on the hand tilt mouse and the
computer. Once this relationship is formed, two COMM ports
are created; one for incoming to the PC and one for outgoing to
the hand tilt mouse. The microcontroller on the hand tilt mouse
is programmed in C language to read data from the
accelerometer and push buttons and send it over RF module.
VI.

FUTURE WORK

This is a technology of the future with great scope of

development. With increased research and
development on this system, it can further be
extended to Virtual Control devices and might bring a
new revolution in the field of gaming.
We can improve the accuracy of cursor movement by
using the more accurate accelerometer.
The glove output is limited to a single hand and since
hands differ in size and freedom of motion, therefore
work can be done on this mouse so that the wearable
hand glove mouse can be flexible for every hand size.
Primarily, we believe that a smaller wearable unit
would be more practical for everyday use. Our
project is built with a small budget in mind and with
easily usable, but not necessarily the smallest parts.
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VII. APPLICATIONS

Precise and easy control of the mouse cursor from

some distance. This mouse overcomes the
shortcomings of the previous versions of mouse as it
eliminates the need of a flat surface for functioning
and allows user to control the computer with comfort.
The wireless glove mouse provides computer mouse
cursor control for people with severe disabilities like
carpal tunnel syndrome who cannot use a traditional
mouse alternative to other users at a low cost without
the need for specialized hardware.
User can perform right click, left click and enable
disable the mouse by simply pressing push up buttons
on his finger.
VIII. CONCLUSION

Overall, the results of our project met our expectations

outlined in our project proposal. Our final Prototype is able to
effectively control cursor movement and clicking with user
hand gestures. It is found that the static keyboard and mouse
are having many limitations with them, while in the case with
this device can be used for the same purpose removing certain
limitations. The resulting found to be very good and efficient
with real-time.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We would like to thanks all the anonymous reviewers who
have given their valuable feedback which helped us
successfully complete this paper.
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