Ok, just finished reading Specifying Gestures by Example by Dean Rubine.  I can sum up this article in a simple sentence: using recognized drawing patterns, i.e. gestures, to cut, paste, move, group select, navigate, etc.  GRANDMA (Gesture Recognizes Automated in a Novel Direct Manipulation Architecture)  is the algorithm they used to accomplish this task.  By giving this system at least 15 examples of a gesture connected to an operation such as delete, 98% were classified correctly when testing.  The gesture for deleting in this experiment was an "x" in a single stroke though.  All of the gestures were single stroked in this experiment.  So to delete something on the computer using gester recognition, all that was needed to be done was to start the mouse over the "file" of interest, press the mouse button down, and create an "x" without letting go of the mouse button until after the cross.  This was a very interesting article. Here is the question of the day?

Would you murder the one you love out of love if they asked you to release them from their suffering?