DataGlove

A wearable input device fitted with sensors that captures hand shape, finger position, and hand orientation data in real time. Originally developed by VPL Research in the 1980s, DataGloves were used extensively in early virtual reality and sign language recognition research to translate hand gestures into digital data. In accessibility research, DataGloves served as input devices for sign language recognition systems, capturing the manual components of signing for computational analysis. Modern sign language recognition has largely moved to camera-based computer vision approaches, but glove-based input remains relevant in some research and rehabilitation contexts.