Research into hand gestures for human computer interaction has been prolific recently, but within it research on hand gestures for conceptual design has either focused on gestures that were defined by the researchers rather than the users, or those that were heavily influenced by what can be achieved using currently available technology. This paper reports on the study performed to identify a user elicited vocabulary of gestures for conceptual design, disassociated from the currently available technology, and its subsequent evaluation. The study included 44 product design engineering students (3^rd, 4^th year and recent graduates) and identified 1772 gestures that were analysed to build a novel gesture consensus set of vocabulary of hand gestures for conceptual design. This set is then evaluated by 10 other professionals, in order to generalise this set for a wider range of users and possibly reduce the need for training. The evaluation has shown that majority of gestures added to the vocabulary were easy to perform and appropriate for the activities, but that at the implementation stage the vocabulary will require another round of evaluation to account for the technology capabilities. The aim of this work is to create a starting point for a potential future system that could adapt to individual designers and allow them to use non-prescribed gestures that will support rather than inhibit their conceptual design thinking processes, akin to the developments that happened in hand writing recognition or predictive texting.

关于人机交互的手势的研究最近很多，但是其中用于概念设计的手势的研究要么集中在研究人员而不是用户定义的手势上，要么集中在可以实现的效果上使用当前可用的技术。本文报告了为识别用户引起的用于概念设计的手势词汇而进行的研究，该研究与当前可用的技术脱节，并进行了后续评估。该研究共纳入44产品设计工程专业的学生（3^次，4^次年和最近的毕业生），并确定了1772个手势，并对其进行了分析，以建立用于概念设计的新颖手势共识词汇集。然后，由10位其他专业人员对这套软件进行评估，以便将其推广到更广泛的用户范围，并可能减少培训需求。评估表明，添加到词汇表中的大多数手势都易于执行并且适合于活动，但是在实施阶段，词汇表将需要进行另一轮评估以说明技术能力。这项工作的目的是为潜在的未来系统创建一个起点，该系统可以适应单个设计师，并允许他们使用非处方手势来支持而不是抑制其概念设计思维过程，