Comments on: gestures in mobile UI http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/blog/blog/2009/10/16/gestures-in-mobile-ui/ designing the mobile user experience Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:55:46 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Barbara http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/blog/blog/2009/10/16/gestures-in-mobile-ui/comment-page-1/#comment-67088 Barbara Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:43:31 +0000 http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/blog/?p=2423#comment-67088 @priyanka - While Nokia has done some nice ethnographic style research across cultures, the academic research on gestures and language is fascinating. It turns out that the differences in gestures associated with language production is not between cultures, but between individuals. As best as I can tell, there is no biological similarity of gestures. That leaves only learned gestures. Yes, there are differences between cultures; user research should try to uncover these. But we have to use caution when adopting existing gestures. For anybody who doesn't know about the Nokia research, you can find it at <a href="http://conversations.nokia.com/2009/06/05/mobile-gesture-design-at-nokia-developing-a-new-dialect-of-interaction/" rel="nofollow">Nokia Conversations</a>. And it talks about cultural differences. We actually did some similar research. For "focus the camera", participants had a few major approaches. Younger people tended towards moving the device itself closer and further from the subject. Older people tended towards turning a virtual SLR lens in front of the device. Either is learnable; they have different design implications. Which to choose? Good question. We don't really know yet. @priyanka – While Nokia has done some nice ethnographic style research across cultures, the academic research on gestures and language is fascinating. It turns out that the differences in gestures associated with language production is not between cultures, but between individuals. As best as I can tell, there is no biological similarity of gestures.

That leaves only learned gestures. Yes, there are differences between cultures; user research should try to uncover these. But we have to use caution when adopting existing gestures.

For anybody who doesn’t know about the Nokia research, you can find it at Nokia Conversations. And it talks about cultural differences.

We actually did some similar research. For “focus the camera”, participants had a few major approaches. Younger people tended towards moving the device itself closer and further from the subject. Older people tended towards turning a virtual SLR lens in front of the device. Either is learnable; they have different design implications. Which to choose? Good question. We don’t really know yet.

]]> By: priyanka http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/blog/blog/2009/10/16/gestures-in-mobile-ui/comment-page-1/#comment-66954 priyanka Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:25:59 +0000 http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/blog/?p=2423#comment-66954 first of all i want to congratulate nokia for this revolutionary step taken in the field of technology to develop gestures mobiles but i want to ask that will these gestures mobile be able to understand the gestures of different country people because different country people have different sense of gestures but this gestures technology will be able to understand only some specified gestures so plese cllarify my question by sending the answer on my email id i.e "groverpriyanka.2@gmail.com" first of all i want to congratulate nokia for this revolutionary step taken in the field of technology to develop gestures mobiles but i want to ask that will these gestures mobile be able to understand the gestures of different country people because different country people have different sense of gestures but this gestures technology will be able to understand only some specified gestures so plese cllarify my question by sending the answer on my email id i.e “groverpriyanka.2@gmail.com”

]]> By: C. Enrique Ortiz http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/blog/blog/2009/10/16/gestures-in-mobile-ui/comment-page-1/#comment-62512 C. Enrique Ortiz Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:26:11 +0000 http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/blog/?p=2423#comment-62512 Very good. Glad you are thinking about this. Someone should take the lead for: 1. Defining guidelines -- you have started above 2. "Standardize" on common gesture patterns -- not sure if you have this in your design wiki but if not, you should; would be useful. enrique Very good. Glad you are thinking about this.

Someone should take the lead for:

1. Defining guidelines — you have started above
2. “Standardize” on common gesture patterns — not sure if you have this in your design wiki but if not, you should; would be useful.

enrique

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