[IxDA Discuss] Any usability studies on free hand gestures?

[Dan Saffer]

On May 1, 2008, at 9:43 PM, Amnon Dekel wrote:

> *design guidelines for best gestures* to
> implement- i.e. rules to help a designer select gestures. The rules  
> should
> include things like from what physical poses gestures should start,  
> how they
> should end, which gestures are more readily understood and easy to  
> learn by
> users etc.

This is what my new book is about. While I'm not a fan of rules per  
se, I do go into things to think about when selecting, documenting,  
prototyping, and, of course, designing interactive gestures. Some of  
which is in the first chapter, a draft of which can be downloaded from  
the book's website:

<http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com>

Dan Saffer
Interactive Gestures: Designing Gestural Interfaces
O'Reilly, Fall 2008