Brave NUI World

Brave NUI World is the first practical guide for designing touch- and gesture-based user interfaces. Written by the team from Microsoft that developed the multi-touch, multi-user Surface® tabletop product, it introduces the reader to natural user interfaces (NUI). It gives readers the necessary tools and information to integrate touch and gesture practices into daily work, presenting scenarios, problem solving, metaphors, and techniques intended to avoid making mistakes.

This book considers diverse user needs and context, real world successes and failures, and the future of NUI. It presents thirty scenarios, giving practitioners a multitude of considerations for making informed design decisions and helping to ensure that missteps are never made again.

The book will be of value to game designers as well as practitioners, researchers, and students interested in learning about user experience design, user interface design, interaction design, software design, human computer interaction, human factors, information design, and information architecture.

• Provides easy-to-apply design guidance for the unique challenge of creating touch- and gesture-based user interfaces
• Considers diverse user needs and context, real world successes and failures, and a look into the future of NUI
• Presents thirty scenarios, giving practitioners a multitude of considerations for making informed design decisions and helping to ensure that missteps are never made again

Autorentext

Daniel Wigdor is an Assistant Professor of computer science at the University of Toronto. Before joining U of T, he worked at Microsoft in nearly a dozen different roles, among them serving as the User Experience Architect of the Microsoft Surface product, and as a cross company expert in the creation of Natural User Interfaces. Before joining Microsoft, he previously conducted research in advanced user interfaces and devices at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, and at the Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard University. He is also co-founder of Iota Wireless, a company dedicated to the commercialization of NUI technologies for mobile phones. Daniel's work has been described in dozens of publications in leading international conferences, journals, and books. His is the recipient of a Wolfond Fellowship and an ACM Best Paper Award.

Inhalt

Part I: Introduction

Introduction The Natural User Interface Ecological Niche: Computing and the Social Environment & Ways of Working Part II: Design Ethos of NUI

Less is More Contextual Environments Spatial Social Seamless Super Real Scaffolding User Differentiation Part III: New Technologies: Understanding & Technological Artefacts

The State-Model of Input Devices Fat Fingers No Touch Left Behind Touch vs. In-Air Gestures Part IV: Creating an Interaction Language

MDA Revisited New Primitives Anatomy of a Gesture Makes a good Gesture Language Self-Revealing Gestures Mode and Flow of a Gesture System Part V: No such thing as Touch

Know your platform: Vision, Resistive, Capacitive, etc. The Fundamentals Have to Work Number of Contacts Contact Data: Shape, Pressure, and Hover Vertical/Horizontal/Mobile Part VI: Process: How do You Get There?

NUI UDI (User Defined Interface) and the Myth of the 'Natural Gesture Set'. False Recognition RITE With a Purpose Part VII: Conclusion

Conclusion: A word About Engineering