Brave NUI World

<p>Part I: Introduction</p> <ol> <p> <li>Introduction</li> <p> <li>The Natural User Interface</li> <p> <li>Ecological Niche: Computing and the Social Environment & Ways of Working</li> <p>Part II: Design Ethos of NUI</p> <p> <li>Less is More</li> <p> <li>Contextual Environments</li> <p> <li>Spatial</li> <p> <li>Social</li> <p> <li>Seamless</li> <p> <li>Super Real</li> <p> <li>Scaffolding</li> <p> <li>User Differentiation</li> <p>Part III: New Technologies: Understanding & Technological Artefacts</p> <p> <li>The State-Model of Input Devices</li> <p> <li>Fat Fingers</li> <p> <li>No Touch Left Behind</li> <p> <li>Touch vs. In-Air Gestures</li> <p>Part IV: Creating an Interaction Language</p> <p> <li>MDA Revisited</li> <p> <li>New Primitives</li> <p> <li>Anatomy of a Gesture</li> <p> <li>Makes a good Gesture Language</li> <p> <li>Self-Revealing Gestures</li> <p> <li>Mode and Flow of a Gesture System</li> <p>Part V: No such thing as Touch</p> <p> <li>Know your platform: Vision, Resistive, Capacitive, etc.</li> <p> <li>The Fundamentals Have to Work</li> <p> <li>Number of Contacts</li> <p> <li>Contact Data: Shape, Pressure, and Hover</li> <p> <li>Vertical/Horizontal/Mobile</li> <p>Part VI: Process: How do You Get There?</p> <p> <li>NUI UDI (User Defined Interface) and the Myth of the ‘Natural Gesture Set’.</li> <p> <li>False Recognition</li> <p> <li>RITE With a Purpose</li> <p>Part VII: Conclusion</p> <p> <li>Conclusion: A word About Engineering</li>