Gesture Design for (and with) Mobiles

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Presented at Design for Mobile 2009

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Barbara Ballard (Little Springs Design)

1 PM | Monday

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The advent of better processors, cheap accelerometers, touch and multi-touch screens, ubiquitous cameras, other sensors, and some creative technologies has made gestures as input possible and feasible. The Little Springs Design team has partner with University of Kansas students to start exploring what gestures are, how they communicate, and what might be natural.

Learn about gestures for interacting with mobiles, and using mobiles to interact with the world. Discussion will start with a model of what gestures are and the current and near-future state of technologies for mobile devices. The workshop attendees will generate gesture ideas, guided by human factors principles and the student research findings.

The workshop will conclude with designing a on-screen and physical gestural interaction for a mapping product.

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[edit] Alison Hoober says:April 17, 2009, •Apr17•1914

Barbara's workshop: Gesture Design for (and with) Mobiles - will be held in The Eldridge hotel's All American Room at 1:00 p.m. Monday April 20th.

Steven's workshop: Designing & Drawing Mobile Interactions - will be held at our Little Springs Design Headquarters, 1901 Massachusetts Street at 1:00 p.m. Monday April 20th.

- For anyone who would like to carpool to our LSD office, please meet at 12: 40 p.m. sharp in the lobby of the Eldridge Hotel.

Our building resides on the south/west corner of 19th Street and Massachusetts Street. We have two small parking lots on both the north and east side of the building which do not connect to one another.

Maps of the area can be found here: http://designformobile.mobi/downloads/d4m2009maps.pdf