http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com A New O'Reilly Book by Dan Saffer Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:10:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dave Cronin of Cooper writes a nice review of Designing Gestural Interfaces:Dan Saffer's new book Designing Gestural Interfaces is a great step towards defining a clear language of physical interactions. The book provides a solid overview of the important things to consider when designing for touchscreens and motion-sensitive controllers, as ... http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/cooper-review-of-dgi/ O'Reilly has published another short excerpt from Designing Gestural Interfaces, from the chapter on Communicating Interactive Gestures. Go read it. http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/excerpt-communicating-interactive-gestures/ Review of Designing Gestural Interfaces on Designers Review of Books: In some ways Designing Gestural Interfaces is a book that is long overdue, given the long history of gestural interaction. In others it is a first and valiant stab and pinning down a currently emerging and rapidly changing area. My guess ... http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/review-of-dgi-on-designers-review-of-books/ Bill Buxton, who's been working with interactive gestures for decades now, offered some corrections to the text of the book, around the history section in chapter one: On the history of touch screens, Samuel Hurst developed some nice touch technology. His initial work–like mine–was on touch tablets, not touch screen. Even ... http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/errata-the-early-history-of-touchscreens-and-simon/ Jonathan Brill is leading an online book club to read Designing Gestural Interfaces together in chunks. An interesting idea I'll be watching (and perhaps chiming in on!). The first section is pretty much covered by the sample chapter (pdf) I've posted. http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/dgi-book-club/ Nice review of Designing Gestural Interfaces by Larry Irons on the Skillful Minds blog: "I highly recommend reading Dan’s book if you are in the least curious about how to approach experience design for interfaces controlled by gestures." http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/dgi-review-on-skillful-minds/ Over on the Kicker Studio blog, I've posted some touchscreen hand gestures suitable for documentation. If you find drawing hands a pain, these could help. http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/touchscreen-hand-gestures-stencils/ Designing Gestural Interfaces will be in bookstores December 3, 2008. If you are a reviewer or an academic who needs an evaluation copy, please contact me at dan at odannyboy dot com with your name, affiliation, and a mailing address. I'll collect and forward your request along to O'Reilly. http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/review-and-evaluation-copies/ Safari has released the pdf version of Designing Gestural Interfaces, along with more excerpts. The book itself should be on shelves in less than two weeks (December 3, 2008). http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/safari-pdf-version-of-designing-gestural-interfaces-now-available/ The book is finished and is headed to the printer today. In honor of that, I'm posting the new chapter 1 and the prologue (776k pdf) for download. Those of you who've downloaded an earlier version of this chapter will find it's not that much different, it just looks nicer, ... http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/dgi-goes-to-printer-today/