In the design of gesture-based user interfaces, gesture elicitation methods are often used to obtain gesture preferences of end users. User choices of gestures can be affected by various factors, such as their cultural backgrounds. Considering cultural factors in designing gesture-based interfaces is important to systems that target for users from different cultures. However, so little empirical research has been conducted on the impact of cultures on gesture commands. This paper reports a study with a series of three experiments on the gesture preferences for tasks in three different application domains with participants from two cultures. We find that some gesture choices are strongly influenced by the cultural background of participants. We discuss the characteristics of those gestures that exhibit cultural dependence and those tasks that do not. We also provide some design guidelines for freehand gesture-based interfaces.

在基于手势的用户界面的设计中，手势启发方法通常用于获得最终用户的手势首选项。用户对手势的选择可能会受到各种因素的影响，例如其文化背景。在设计基于手势的界面时考虑文化因素对于以不同文化背景的用户为目标的系统很重要。然而，关于文化对手势命令影响的实证研究很少。本文报告了一项研究，该研究包含三个实验系列，涉及三个不同应用领域中来自两种文化的参与者的任务手势偏好。我们发现某些手势选择受参与者的文化背景强烈影响。我们讨论了表现出文化依赖性的手势的特征以及没有表现出文化依赖性的手势的特征。我们还为基于徒手手势的界面提供了一些设计准则。