Customer Reviews:
 Well written and informative. December 24, 2008
After having read Dan Saffer's book on Designing for Interaction (a good read in itself), I was looking forward to this new text. There is nothing else available at present that provides an in depth treatment of gestural interaction, so this is a welcome addition to my bookshelf .. well, my desktop actually, as that is where many of my favourite books reside. Designing Gestural Interfaces covers a lot of ground for such a relatively short text, and although I was hoping for more details relating to multitouch devices, I was not disappointed, and would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in this topic.
I guess the advantage of not specialising too much in one area of gestural interfaces is that you can build up 'the big picture' in your mind, and get to see a host of related ideas and how they are interlinked. Another angle on this is that gestural interfaces in the future will most likely be multimodal, using the most effective elements of hand gestures, head movements and facial expressions. This text covers many of these ideas, and has a superb appendix full of gestural examples.
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