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in mobile and convergent experiences across devices.

One Parent's Initial Observations on Xbox Kinect
By Jared Benson, Nov 08, 2010


The Kinect sensor enables controller-free, full body play.

I had an opportunity last week to pick up Microsoft's new Kinect sensor bar, which introduces a new suite of full-body gestures and capabilities to the Xbox 360. My initial observations result from spending a weekend with it, playing as a family.

Now I imagine there will be scores of gamers out there who dismiss Kinect because the launch titles are more casual in nature, but I believe this device will steal some family game time back from the Nintendo Wii. When the Wii came out, we suddenly saw people playing video games that wouldn't have played...

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Digital Home, Gaming, Gestures, Observations, Xbox
Gestures: Shaking Up Mobile Interaction
By Punchcut, May 27, 2009

Mobile Gestures like Shake

Gestures are taking over. With accelerometers being packed into more and more consumer devices (think Wii remote, iPhone, digital cameras and a host of other electronics) designers are using physical motion as a basic component of interaction design. This is great stuff; rather than being limited to simple pointing and selection, we can now create richer UI experiences that respond to a broader range of physical interactions, such as tilting, spinning, waving and shaking.

This new design opportunity is making clear, though, that we need a language for gestural user interfaces, and we need it soon. Take the 'shake' as an example. One of the early co...

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Gestures, mobile
Design Considerations for Touch UI - Visualized
By Joe Pemberton, Apr 17, 2009

Designing for touch-based mobile user interfaces requires new thinking and an expanded design vocabulary.

Our motion designers at Punchcut prepared this video...

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Android, considerations, Design, Gestures, Motion, Touch, UI, User Interface, video, WebOS
Designing for Gestural UI: Gabriel White’s SXSW 2009 Presentation
By Joe Pemberton, Mar 19, 2009
Gestural UI: the iPhone taught us to flick and pinch, what's next?...
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Design, Gestures, interface, UI, user
Gabriel White Will Discuss Gestural User Interface at SXSW
By Joe Pemberton, Mar 09, 2009

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Gestures are simply the way we interact with the natural world. Gabriel White, Punchcut’s Interaction Design Director will give a talk titled “Gestural UI: iPhone Taught Us Flick and Pinch. What’s Next?” at SXSW Interactive in Austin.

The Conference will take place March 13 to 17 in Austin, Texas.

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Design, Gestures, mobile, SXSW, UI, User Interface