Category Archives: Gestural Interfaces

We are excited to give you a sneak peek at our latest project, a gesture-controlled movie browser platform developed with Omek Interactive for Jinni, a movie genome company, which will be debuting at CES on January 10, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. When Omek approached us to create a gestural interface for Jinni, we took [...]

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At Kicker Studio, we’re interested in the idea of physical interface. We’re interested in discovering how we can take technology off the screen and make it become an additive that can be embedded into any product to make it stronger, smarter, and more powerful. Technology needs to respond in ways we understand. Technology needs to [...]

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What does it mean to “make tech speak human”? With the emergence of new technologies like touch and gesture, technology needs to learn how humans use those methods to communicate with our world. Let’s look at gesture, for example. When we talk we use our hands to emphasize and illustrate what we are trying to [...]

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Microsoft’s Kinect (and the subsequent awesome hacks) has raised the rallying cry of “Where’s my Minority Report interface?” Trust me when I say: you don’t really want one.

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After giving this talk over a dozen times over the last two years, I’ve decided to retire Tap is the New Click. Here are the slides.

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Does your mother know what gestural interfaces are?

Mine does now, in part because of our work at Kicker Studio, but also in part because of recent coverage in the mainstream media, like Hitachi’s gesture-controlled TV featured on the Today Show yesterday.

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In addition to Kicker’s own Gestural Entertainment Center for Canesta, there have been a lot of gestural interfaces that have launched recently. Here are a few that I found interesting.

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While doing some research, I accidentally stumbled onto the Wikipedia entry for Gesture Recognition, an entry that, amazingly, I’d never seen before, despite days and days of research for Designing Gestural Interfaces. Buried in the entry is a great name for a condition that poorly-designed gestural interfaces can cause: gorilla arm.

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One question that often gets asked, both at my talks and on projects, is how many gestures can a user reasonably be asked to remember in order to control a system?

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First it was public restrooms. Now your kitchen. This new side-by-side refrigerator by AEG-Electrolux conserves energy by going into sleep mode and but can be woken up with a wave, just like the paper towel dispenser at an airport bathroom

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