I know this is a bit late, because my co-author has already reported it, but I am very happy to announce that some ears have been listening. The CHI ’10 Workshop, “Natural User Interfaces: The prospect and challenge of Touch and Gestural Computing” has granted an audience to the new...

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...