Interactive Gestures: Designing Gestural Interfaces

In advance of my Tap is the New Click presentation at ETech, O’Reilly has graciously allowed me to post a draft of the first chapter of this book (now titled) Interactive Gestures: Designing Gestural Interfaces. It’s pretty much my unedited first draft, but I think it reads pretty well. Comments welcome, of course!

Download Chapter 1 (5.4mb pdf)

Elliptic Labs is showing off a new sensor technology that detects motion in 3D, and requires no special worn-sensors for operation. From the Gizmodo post:

By simply pointing at the screen, users can manipulate the object being displayed in all three dimensions. Sensors are mounted around the screen that is being used, by interacting in the line-of-sight of these sensors the motion is detected and interpreted into on-screen movements. What is to stop unintentional gestures being used as input is not entirely clear, but it looks promising nonetheless. The best part? Elliptic Labs says their technology will be easily small enough to be implemented into cellphones and the like. iPod Touchless anyone?

Neat. One wonders if in ten years anyone will have a mouse at all.