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    Brave NUI World: Designing Natural User Interfaces for Touch and Gesture
    Brave NUI World: Designing Natural User Interfaces for Touch and Gesture
    Brave NUI World: Designing Natural User Interfaces for Touch and Gesture
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    Brave NUI World: Designing Natural User Interfaces for Touch and Gesture

    By Daniel Wigdor and Dennis Wixon

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    Touch and gestural devices have been hailed as next evolutionary step in human-computer interaction. As software companies struggle to catch up with one another in terms of developing the next great touch-based interface, designers are charged with the daunting task of keeping up with the advances in new technology and this new aspect to user experience design.

    Product and interaction designers, developers and managers are already well versed in UI design, but touch-based interfaces have added a new level of complexity. They need quick references and real-world examples in order to make informed decisions when designing for these particular interfaces. Brave NUI World is the first practical book for product and interaction developers and designing touch and gesture interfaces. Written by developers of industry-first, multi-touch, multi-user products, this book gives you the necessary tools and information to integrate touch and gesture practices into your daily work, presenting scenarios, problem solving, metaphors, and techniques intended to avoid making mistakes.



    *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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateApr 5, 2011
    ISBN9780123822321
    Brave NUI World: Designing Natural User Interfaces for Touch and Gesture
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    Daniel Wigdor

    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.

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