Comments for Designing Gestural Interfaces http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com A New O'Reilly Book by Dan Saffer Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:41:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 Comment on Nokia’s New Gestural Interfaces by 20080125 - Adam Crowe http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/nokias-new-gestural-interfaces/#comment-317 20080125 - Adam Crowe Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:38:38 +0000 http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/nokias-new-gestural-interfaces/#comment-317 [...] Designing Gestural Interfaces – Nokia’s New Gestural Interfaces Nah. People want to touch things.The screen is too fscking small to get visual feedback on gestures! I might as well reach out and touch it. Nokia, are you a mobile company or not?? Minority Report wasn’t mobile tech! (tags: diagrams nokia interaction design mobile gestures touch cameratracking) [...] […] Designing Gestural Interfaces – Nokia’s New Gestural Interfaces Nah. People want to touch things.The screen is too fscking small to get visual feedback on gestures! I might as well reach out and touch it. Nokia, are you a mobile company or not?? Minority Report wasn’t mobile tech! (tags: diagrams nokia interaction design mobile gestures touch cameratracking) […]

]]> Comment on Errata: The Early History of Touchscreens and Simon by seraph321 http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/errata-the-early-history-of-touchscreens-and-simon/#comment-259 seraph321 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:59:51 +0000 http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/errata-the-early-history-of-touchscreens-and-simon/#comment-259 Thanks for posting this. It's great to see Bill's input. Thanks for posting this. It’s great to see Bill’s input.

]]> Comment on Publication Date by 2008 October 22 - Links for today « My (almost) Daily Links http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/publication-date/#comment-244 2008 October 22 - Links for today « My (almost) Daily Links Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:51:35 +0000 http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/publication-date/#comment-244 [...] upcoming Designing Gestural Interfaces book now has a publication date and chapter one is available for [...] […] upcoming Designing Gestural Interfaces book now has a publication date and chapter one is available for […]

]]> Comment on The Death of the Mouse by 2008 September 25 - Links for today « My (almost) Daily Links http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/the-death-of-the-mouse/#comment-242 2008 September 25 - Links for today « My (almost) Daily Links Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:49:08 +0000 http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/the-death-of-the-mouse/#comment-242 [...] Dan Saffer anticipates The Death of the Mouse [...] […] Dan Saffer anticipates The Death of the Mouse […]

]]> Comment on The Death of the Mouse by Dan http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/the-death-of-the-mouse/#comment-241 Dan Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:45:37 +0000 http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/the-death-of-the-mouse/#comment-241 Fingers are decidedly less accurate than a mouse or stylus. Either there will have to be compensations made for that (a UI widget that "sharpens" the finger to a stylus-like point or interfaces changing to accommodate the wider finger size), or else the mouse/stylus will likely persist for specific tasks, such as design work. Fingers are decidedly less accurate than a mouse or stylus. Either there will have to be compensations made for that (a UI widget that “sharpens” the finger to a stylus-like point or interfaces changing to accommodate the wider finger size), or else the mouse/stylus will likely persist for specific tasks, such as design work.

]]> Comment on The Death of the Mouse by scottcorey http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/the-death-of-the-mouse/#comment-240 scottcorey Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:18:46 +0000 http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/the-death-of-the-mouse/#comment-240 I am a CAD worker, and while I can't speak for all other CAD workers, I personally doubt the death of the mouse. I understand the concept of multi-touch and the power of gestural moves, but doubt the precision of my fat little fingers versus the scalable precision of a mouse. In fact there are still new tools being designed for manipulating interface that are not touch based, like the Space Mouse. I'm unsure how the functions of a 3 axis device could be replicated through a flat touch surface. My final point is probably overused, but with newer touch interfaces sharing screen surface there could be 2 effects. The first (positive) is direct "sketch" manipulation where a person can access the tools on the screen directly and act as a real sketch pad. The second (negative) is that while interfacing with this sketch pad I am reducing the size of the screen I am working on and blocking parts of my view. As a side note, maybe the DS got it right with one touch screen and one static screen. I mean of course for designers... they definitely got it right for game design. I am a CAD worker, and while I can’t speak for all other CAD workers, I personally doubt the death of the mouse. I understand the concept of multi-touch and the power of gestural moves, but doubt the precision of my fat little fingers versus the scalable precision of a mouse.

In fact there are still new tools being designed for manipulating interface that are not touch based, like the Space Mouse. I’m unsure how the functions of a 3 axis device could be replicated through a flat touch surface.

My final point is probably overused, but with newer touch interfaces sharing screen surface there could be 2 effects. The first (positive) is direct “sketch” manipulation where a person can access the tools on the screen directly and act as a real sketch pad. The second (negative) is that while interfacing with this sketch pad I am reducing the size of the screen I am working on and blocking parts of my view.

As a side note, maybe the DS got it right with one touch screen and one static screen. I mean of course for designers… they definitely got it right for game design.

]]> Comment on Touchless Remote Control by Outerspace/ Innerspace » Blog Archive » Tap is the New Click (Dan Saffer) http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/touchless-remote-control/#comment-239 Outerspace/ Innerspace » Blog Archive » Tap is the New Click (Dan Saffer) Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:31:18 +0000 http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/touchless-remote-control/#comment-239 [...] gestural remote control, t-mobile ‘minority report interface’ [...] […] gestural remote control, t-mobile ‘minority report interface’ […]

]]> Comment on Pre-Order Interactive Gestures on Amazon by thomasobrey http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/pre-order-interactive-gestures-on-amazon/#comment-227 thomasobrey Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:06:24 +0000 http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/pre-order-interactive-gestures-on-amazon/#comment-227 Nice work Dan. I've been following this blog since UXI Vancouver, and waiting for this. I've officially (back) ordered my copy. Nice work Dan. I’ve been following this blog since UXI Vancouver, and waiting for this. I’ve officially (back) ordered my copy.

]]> Comment on OLPC 2.0 is All Touchscreen by Bibliotheken als Bildungseinrichtungen :: Noch einmal Netbooks und Gesellschaft :: June :: 2008 http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/olpc-20-is-all-touchscreen/#comment-185 Bibliotheken als Bildungseinrichtungen :: Noch einmal Netbooks und Gesellschaft :: June :: 2008 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:18:18 +0000 http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/olpc-20-is-all-touchscreen/#comment-185 [...] nicht das aktuelle Projekt des XO-2 ein [der allerdings anderswo vorgestellt und diskutiert wird: hier, hier, hier und hier], welcher meineserachtens durch seine Anlehnung ans Buch und seinen Verzicht [...] […] nicht das aktuelle Projekt des XO-2 ein [der allerdings anderswo vorgestellt und diskutiert wird: hier, hier, hier und hier], welcher meineserachtens durch seine Anlehnung ans Buch und seinen Verzicht […]

]]> Comment on Sketch Furniture by endquote http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/sketch-furniture/#comment-176 endquote Sun, 11 May 2008 14:53:34 +0000 http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/sketch-furniture/#comment-176 I loved the UI stuff in Iron Man, especially the holographic CAD system. I haven't seen much buzz about it, though -- must be looking in the wrong places. What blogs, etc, are discussing this sort of thing that I'm missing out on? I loved the UI stuff in Iron Man, especially the holographic CAD system. I haven’t seen much buzz about it, though — must be looking in the wrong places. What blogs, etc, are discussing this sort of thing that I’m missing out on?

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