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 my new 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)
Looking good, Dan. It seems you’re doing a thorough job of it (not surprising). I have to ask though, are you including David Small’s “Stream of Consciousness”? as an example somewhere? That’s one of my favorites.
Referencing englebart + fitts + norman + rfid + gibson + wii … and *the clapper*??
Two, please.
Looks intriguing so far, Dan. I’m abut 1/3 through your first book, so I guess I need to get reading if I’m to finish before Interactive Gestures is published. Keep up the good work, and thanks for inspiring so many of us.
Also, I’m not claiming to be the only one to have coined this phrase, but tap is indeed the new click:
http://www.martinoflynn.com/blog/?p=69
Look forward to reading the rest of it!
Also, thought you might like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtLX52z4kPU
V. Cool 🙂
Very approachable balance of practical, technical and theoretical information. One note though – your reference to James Gibson as a “cognitive psychologist” is inaccruate – Gibson’s was anti-cognitive. See:
http://www.designingforhumans.com/idsa/2008/03/interactive-ges.html
the link on the O’Reillys page links to Torrens-ETech-2008.pptx.
Nice work but… nothing to do with gesture 🙂
Also not sure if you know about a multitouch with a time line interface–based in Helsinki… http://citywall.org/pages/about
and
http://www.multitouch.fi/
There is also some writing on small group use to be presented at CHI2008 from this work. Happy to send a copy on if you are interested. Has been nominated/ short-listed for inclusion for best paper awards prize as well.
best, and nice work as always!
Ann Morrison