http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com A New O'Reilly Book by Dan Saffer coming in Fall 2008 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:12:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm in the middle of filling out the interactive gesture patterns of the book, and I need photos of examples of some of these patterns. Do you have any or know of any? Tap to Select. When you select some items, then have to do something else with them (like selecting ... http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/looking-for-interactive-gesture-images/ Even though One Laptop Per Child seems to be having some serious business and political issues, apparently it hasn't stopped them from thinking about future products. Dubbed XO-2, it is scheduled to come out in 2010. From Laptop Magazine: Negroponte didn’t share many details about the XO-2’s hardware, but the new system ... http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/olpc-20-is-all-touchscreen/ There has been a lot of buzz lately about the holographic 3D modeling in the movie Iron Man. It's not that far in the future, really, as Sketch Furniture shows. If they had a holographic projector, they could see what they were sketching (like we do in the video). http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/sketch-furniture/ http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/diy-surface/ Gestural remote control designed for the kitchen (where you might have messy hands) by student Joris Van Gelder for Bang & Olufsen. The hole in the middle of the device is an interesting twist.Loving the ghost hand in the video. http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/touchless-remote-control/ I'm looking for interesting examples of documentation around touchscreens or interactive environments for inclusion into the "Documenting Interactive Gestures" chapter. I'd love it if you could contribute!I'm looking for:wireframestask flowsstoryboardsanimation or movie stillsEmail me a dan -at- odannyboy -dot- com if you have a sample you (and your company/client) can ... http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/looking-for-gestural-interface-process-documents/ Cnet's Crave reports that Kazuhiro Taniguchi, a researcher in Osaka University's Graduate School of Engineering, has developed a device called the KomeKami Switch (Temple Switch) that allows users to control their iPod music player via eye winks. "The KomeKami Switch can be clipped to eyeglasses or headphones and will respond ... http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/winking-at-your-ipod/ T-Mobile unveiled this transparent (!) wall interface at their CeBit 2008 booth a few days ago. Brief Wired article on it:So how did the companies keep everyone's attention? By letting people play with touchscreens, and believe it, nothing is hotter right now than touchscreens. In the T-Mobile area, an extended ... http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/minority-report-style-wall-at-cebit-2008/ ZD Net rumor:Microsoft officials have been talking up the company’s plans to introduce more consumer-focused form factors of its Surface multi-touch tabletop. They’ve said future iterations of Microsoft’s Surface multi-touch technology will be available as part of next-generation PCs, cellphones, desks, kitchen counters and even walls in consumers’ homes over ... http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/surface-sphere/ BBC Video about large touchscreen technology that responds to a variety of styluses: "Anthony Uhrick from Next Window describes a new multi-touch display that uses light-sensors to allow users to "hold" their work in their hands." http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/bbc-multitouch-video/