WIMP is the current acronym for the Windows User Experience. It stands for Windows Icons Menus Pointing Devices. In human–computer interaction, WIMP stands for “window, icon, menu, pointing device“, denoting a style of interaction using these elements. It was coined by Merzouga Wilberts...

All over the web I see the word gesture used to describe every type of interaction on a natural user interface. Just because you use your finger or a stylus or an accelerometer, does not make it a “gesture.” Is this crucial? Not really to users, consumers, marketing, et al. But it is in being...