What Sci-Fi Can Teach Us About Gestures

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An Internet Week New York event:

6:30PM - 7:00PM - Networking

7:00PM - 8:00PM - Presentation: What Sci-Fi Can Teach Us About Gestures

We're not all waving at our computers to check email yet, but like the jetpack of yesteryear, nearly all of us have seen Minority Report and Iron Man and kind of expect it to be just around the corner. Sci-fi is leading the public conception of what gestures mean for our audiences as users and ourselves as designers, and we should examine that carefully before we accept it as what's best.

Christopher Noessel, co-author of the book Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Sci-Fi, will be leading an interactive presentation live from San Francisco, talking about the gesture chapter of the book: covering the paradigm that Hollywood has (accidentally) invented, what a narrative point of view means for gestural interfaces, and see illustrative clips from sci-fi to back up the analysis.

PLUS! Just for NUI Central attendees: The publisher, Rosenfeld Media, will be offering a discount code to purchase Chris' book!

8:00PM - 8:30PM - Hang Out - Network

To get to WeWork Labs: As you're facing 175 Varick Street look to your left and you'll see Charlton Street. The entrance to WeWork is on Charlton Street. You'll enter through a black door that says WeWork on it, go straight up several steps and go through another door. Then, you'll see the elevators to your left. Go to the 4th floor. The Meetup sign in desk will be right there as you exit the elevator.