Well, First of all let me clear it that, I am not talking about some ancestor of ours or anything related to them. I am posting this about a problem, I just encountered and I need your help in this thing. According to Wikipedia, Gorilla Arm's definition is as given below:
"Gorilla arm" was a side-effect that destroyed vertically-oriented touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s.[32]
Designers of touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized—the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterwards. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; "Remember the gorilla arm!" is shorthand for "How is this going to fly in real use?".
Gorilla arm is not a problem for specialist short-term-use uses, since they only involve brief interactions which do not last long enough to cause gorilla arm."
Well my problem is that I made this software, that makes use of a horizontal hand gesture in front of the web cam. This thing have similar physical movements involved what Wikipedia called as "vertically-oriented touch-screens".
While developing the application, I felt the similar "Gorilla Arm" but I thought that it's just some problem with my hand specifically and it won't be general. But now when I just passed through this, I think that it will be a serious problem for projects like this.
So I was wondering, if anyone can help me out on this thing. If you don't understand completely what I am saying, I will love to elaborate.
