  The study of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) aims to create close and friendly
communication between humans and robots. In the human-center HRI, an essential
aspect of implementing a successful and effective HRI is building a natural and
intuitive interaction, including verbal and nonverbal. As a prevalent
nonverbally communication approach, hand and arm gesture communication happen
ubiquitously in our daily life. A considerable amount of work on gesture-based
HRI is scattered in various research domains. However, a systematic
understanding of the works on gesture-based HRI is still lacking. This paper
intends to provide a comprehensive review of gesture-based HRI and focus on the
advanced finding in this area. Following the stimulus-organism-response
framework, this review consists of: (i) Generation of human gesture(stimulus).
(ii) Robot recognition of human gesture(organism). (iii) Robot reaction to
human gesture(response). Besides, this review summarizes the research status of
each element in the framework and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of
related works. Toward the last part, this paper discusses the current research
challenges on gesture-based HRI and provides possible future directions.

Human-Computer Interaction;Robotics