TY - GEN
T1 - Facial Gesture Detection for Individuals with Reduced Hand Mobility Using Graph Neural Networks
AU - Alvarez, Erick Gabriel Urbizagastegui
AU - Díaz, Eduardo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2026.
PY - 2026
Y1 - 2026
N2 - This paper addresses the limited digital accessibility faced by individuals with reduced hand mobility and explores how to overcome it. An efficient facial gesture recognition model is proposed, designed to operate based on facial landmarks (Facial Mesh) extracted using Mediapipe’s Face Mesh technology. The model incorporates a graph neural network (GNN) with a lightweight architecture and low computational complexity to detect facial gestures on the user’s face, enabling smooth execution on low-performance computers without significantly compromising user experience. The work presented may be of interest to researchers focused on digital accessibility for individuals with motor impairments in their hands.
AB - This paper addresses the limited digital accessibility faced by individuals with reduced hand mobility and explores how to overcome it. An efficient facial gesture recognition model is proposed, designed to operate based on facial landmarks (Facial Mesh) extracted using Mediapipe’s Face Mesh technology. The model incorporates a graph neural network (GNN) with a lightweight architecture and low computational complexity to detect facial gestures on the user’s face, enabling smooth execution on low-performance computers without significantly compromising user experience. The work presented may be of interest to researchers focused on digital accessibility for individuals with motor impairments in their hands.
KW - Assistive Technology
KW - Eye Tracking
KW - Facial Gesture Recognition
KW - Graph Neural Network
KW - Human-Computer
KW - Interaction
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105030245347
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-032-16451-3_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-032-16451-3_11
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:105030245347
SN - 9783032164506
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 129
EP - 148
BT - Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - 9th International Conference, CHIRA 2025, Proceedings
A2 - Krems, Josef F.
A2 - da Silva, Hugo Plácido
A2 - Cipresso, Pietro
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 9th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications, CHIRA 2025
Y2 - 20 October 2025 through 21 October 2025
ER -