New Book: Designing Gestural Interfaces

I'm very pleased to announce that I'm writing another book: Designing Gestural Interfaces for O'Reilly, scheduled for publication in Fall 2008. The book is based in part on the Interactive Gestures wiki that I started several months ago with A Call to Arms.

What the book is about: Nintendo’s Wii and Apple’s iPhone have introduced the public to the power and grace of using gestures to control devices and interactive systems. But how exactly do you design for this new interaction paradigm? It isn’t like designing for traditional websites or software, but until now, there has been little written about these new interfaces, which will only grow in number and variety over the next few years.

Designing Gestural Interfaces will examine current patterns and trends in this new area, discussing emerging patterns of use, a taxonomy of human gestures, how to design and document interactive gestures, an overview of the technologies surrounding touchscreens and interactive environments, communicating to users how to use these new systems, and ways to prototype gestural interfaces.

Read more about the book and follow my progress on its site. Eventually there will be excerpts, movies and other images there from the book.

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