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Developing systems and algorithms to recognize hand gestures is expected to enhance the experience of human\u2013computer interfaces, especially when there are difficulties in communicating vocally. A popular system for recognizing hand gestures is the air-writing method, where people write letters in the air by hand. The arm movements are tracked with a smartwatch\/band with embedded acceleration and gyro sensors; a computer system then recognizes the written letters. One of the greatest difficulties in developing algorithms for air writing is the diversity of human hand\/arm movements, which makes it difficult to build signal templates for air-written characters or network models. This paper proposes a method for recognizing air-written characters using an artificial neural network. We utilized uni-stroke-designed characters and presented a network model with inception modules and an ensemble structure. 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