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Interactive Gestures

This site is for the collection and dissemination of gestural interface information and patterns, such as found on such devices as the iPhone and Wii. Please feel free to edit and add information and patterns as you see fit.

Shake to Clear

Tilt to Move

Tilt to Change State (add info about changing display state on iPhone, etc.)

Wave Hand to Activate

Flip to Silence

Contents

[edit] Tactics for Communicating Gestures

Demonstration

Annotated Control Diagram

Metaphor

Existing Marking Language

[edit] Documenting Gestures

Book: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Everyday Gestures

Dance Notation Bureau (!!!). Has a page on Dance Notation Basics.

The Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs, and Body Language Cues

Apple's Gesture Dictionary

Fingerworks Gesture Guide

Examples

Neonode Phone Documentation


[edit] Prototyping Gestural Interactions

Touchscreens.com for hardware, including snap-ons for monitors.

Basic gesture prototyping Wii Motion for Mac

Gesture Recognition in Flash

Capacitive touch sensor

[edit] Engineering Issues in Gestural Interfaces

Christopher K Leung's thesis, "Handling Ambiguous User Input on Touchscreen Kiosks"


[edit] Technology Resources

Bill Buxton's list of input devices and technologies

Professional software for Gesture Recognition

Resistive touch sensitive screens

Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW)

Capacitive

Infrared

Strain Gauge

Optical Imaging

Dispersive Signal Technology

Acoustic Pulse Recognition

Frustrated Total Internal Reflection


[edit] Companies and Products

Apple: iPhone, MacBooks, iPod Touch

Jazzmutant: Lemur, Dexter

Microsoft: Surface, Zune

Neonode

Nintendo: Wii

Nokia

Perceptive Pixel

Tactex multi-touch interfaces

Tangible Interaction Design: Morula, Zygote

[edit] Miscellaneous Resources

Many examples of multitouch gestures and -applications (TED Conference - Jeff Han)

Wii Motion Analysis

Gallery of Apple's Recent Gestural Patents

The Touch Project

Lucid Touch (Touching the back of the device, Research project

Recognizing gestures: Interface design beyond point-and-click

Tactilicious: The nitty gritty of the touchy feely.

Taxonomy of Wii Gestures

[edit] Community Resources

Natural User Interface Group

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