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Unfortunately, economically and ergonomically viable sensing gloves provide limited precision due to the imperfect and incomplete correspondence of sensing models with the anatomical degrees of freedom of the human hand, and because of measurement noise. This paper examines the problem of optimally estimating the posture of a human hand using non-ideal sensing gloves. The main idea is to maximize their performance by exploiting knowledge of how humans most frequently use their hands. To increase the accuracy of pose reconstruction without modifying the glove hardware \u2014 hence basically at no extra cost \u2014 we propose the collection, organization, and exploitation of information on the probabilistic distribution of human hand poses in common tasks. 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