Good point about kids' hands acting unstably! I'm thinking that the Leap would play a data collection role in this scenario... the kid wouldn't necessarily know that the Leap was there.
A good example of the behavior I would need to be tracked is hand-flapping. Hand flapping is what we call a "self-stimulatory" behavior, in which the subject waves his or her hands back and forth or wiggles his or her fingers repetitively. I found this video on youtube of a kid engaging in finger-wagging, and I bet you can find other examples if you click around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_O8vyrSt0Q
Currently the way that we track that type of behavior is with pen-and-paper, making a tally mark each time the subject engages in that behavior longer than 1 second. Could a Leap be set up to record each instance of the kiddo engaging in that behavior?
Is this a project you might be interested in exploring? It seems like the Leap is mostly used for games and more fun purposes, so I certainly understand if this isn't something you'd be interested in. That said, if the Leap can be used in this way I know several companies in the behavior analysis field that would likely be very interested in a behavior-tracking program.
