Designing Gestural Interfaces

Nintendo's Wii and Apple's iPhone have introduced the public to the power of using gestures to control devices and interactive systems. But how exactly do you design for this new interaction paradigm? It isn't like designing for traditional websites or software, but until now, there has been little written about these new interfaces, which will only grow in number and variety over the next few years. Designing Gestural Interfaces examines current patterns and trends in this new area, discussing emerging patterns of use, how to design and document interactive gestures, provides an overview of the technologies surrounding touchscreens and interactive environments, communicating to users how to use these new systems, and ways to prototype gestural interfaces.

Dan Saffer is an experience design director for Adaptive Path who has designed and built websites, applications, and devices since 1995. An international speaker and author, his acclaimed book Designing for Interaction has been called "a bookshelf must-have for anyone thinking of creating new designs" (Jared Spool, CEO of UIE) and has been translated into several languages.

Dedication
Preface
Who Should Read this Book
How to Use this Book
How to Contact Us
Safariâ“ Books Online
Acknowledgments
Introducing Interactive Gestures
Tap is the New Click
Direct Versus Indirect Manipulation
A Brief History of Gestural Interfaces
The Mechanics of Touchscreens and Gestural Controllers
Designing Interactive Gestures: The Basics
Determining the Appropriate Gesture
For Further Reading
Designing for the Human Body
Basic Kinesiology
The Ergonomics of Interactive Gestures
The Ergonomics of Motion
Designing Touch Targets
For Further Reading
Patterns for Touchscreens and Interactive Surfaces
How to Use Patterns
Tap to Open/Activate
Tap to Select
Drag to Move Object
Slide to Scroll
Spin to Scroll
Slide and Hold for Continuous Scroll
Flick to Nudge
Fling to Scroll
Tap to Stop
Pinch To Shrink And Spread to Enlarge
Two Fingers to Scroll
Ghost Fingers
Patterns for Free-Form Interactive Gestures
Proximity Activates/Deactivates
Move Body to Activate
Point to Select/Activate
Wave to Activate
Place Hands Inside to Activate
Rotate to Change State
Step to Activate
Shake to Change
Tilt to Move
Documenting Interactive Gestures
Why Document Anything?
Existing Movement Notation Systems
Documenting Gestures in Interactive Systems
For Further Reading
Prototyping Interactive Gestures
Faking It: Low-Fidelity Prototypes
High-Fidelity Prototypes
Testing Prototypes
Prototyping Resources
For Further Reading
Communicating Interactive Gestures
Three Zones of Engagement
Methods of Communicating Interactive Gestures
For Further Reading
The Future of Interactive Gestures
Future Trends
Toward Standards
The Ethics of Gestures
For Further Reading
A Palette of Human Gestures and Movements
Gestures for Touchscreens
Gestures for Free-Form Systems
For Further Reading
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