Immersive Design
  • Introduction
  • Course Program
  • Showcase
  • References
  • Class 0-2 Bootcamp
    • The Last Great Battle of the Samurai
    • Class 0: Sensing
    • Class 1: Design Tools
    • Class 2: Evaluation Basics
  • Spatial
    • Spatial Rationales: Food for Thought
    • Spatial Intimacy: Public Space
    • Spatial Intimacy: Social Space
    • Spatial Intimacy: Personal Space
    • Spatial Intimacy: Intimate Space
    • Spatial Form: Proportion & Rhythm
    • Spatial Flow: Movement & Direction
    • Spatial Sensing: Sensory Expressions
    • Spatial Sound: Edible Flavor
  • Embodiment
    • Embodiment: Kinesthetic Space
    • Embodiment: Gestural Kinesphere
    • Embodiment: Bodily Kinesphere
    • Embodiment: Harmony & Balance
    • Embodiment: Affordances & Microinteractions
  • Evaluation
    • Evaluation Topics: Immersion & Presence
    • Evaluation Topics: Emotional Immersion
    • Evaluation Topics: Body-Ownership
    • Evaluation Topics: User Tasks
    • Evaluation Topics: Navigation
    • Evaluation Topics: Wayfinding
    • Evaluation Topics: Human-System Control
    • Evaluation Topics: Feedback, feedforward & force feedback
  • Methods
    • Evaluation Methods: Setting up an Experiment
    • Evaluation Methods: Quantitative & Qualitative
    • Evaluation Methods: Materials
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Embodiment: Gestural Kinesphere

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Gestural Kinesphere

Gestures are

  • ..motions of the limbs or body made to express or help express thought or to emphasise speech.

  • ..the actions of making such a motion or motions.

Gestural activity and Gesture intentions

Gestures are: mimic gesture, symbolic gestures, sweeping, sign language, speech-connected hand gesture, surface-based gestures and whole-body interaction and can be expressed in 2D and 3D:

Gestural Kinesphere

Kinespheres can be used on a variety of scales, from the human body to small thumb-movements. In this chapter, we ask you to think about the gestural kinesphere

Other examples of gestural movement

  • Surface - (2D)dragging and rotating - (3D) pinching, void shadows, balloon selection, corkscrew widget, triangle cursor

  • Indirect - Indirect Control-Space: indirect touch, virtual interaction surface, levels-of-precision cursor, virtual pad - Indirect Proxy Techniques: world in miniature, Voodoo Dolls - Indirect Widget Technique: 3D widgets, virtual sphere, arcball.

Besides the act of making motion, gestures can have a specific intent as well. These are called gesture intentions, of which different examples can be seen here: , , , , , , , Slash. As you can see these intentions are quite refined and it needs some practice to extinguish them from one another. One way of applying these gesture intentions is by creating characters for avatars. (see video for a good impression)

kinespheres on a variety of scales

gestural kinesphere for hand & fingers (small-scale)

example of gestural movement

Grasping - Hand-based grasping ( & Go-Go interaction technique) - Finger-based grasping (rigid-body fingers, soft-body fingers, god fingers)

Pointing - Vector-based pointing technique (, fishing reel, image-plane pointing) - Volume-based pointing technique (flashlight, aperture selection, sphere-casting) - Enhancements (bend cast, depth ray, absolute & relative mapping)

Float
Wring
Dab
Glide
Punch
Press
Flick
simple virtual hand
ray-casting/ray-tracing
Finger Gestures
small-scale kinesphere for hand & fingers
Gestural kinespheres // https://virtualrealitypop.com/designing-for-the-human-body-in-xr & J.S.Longstaff 2005
gesture lexicon of activities and intentions // https://virtualrealitypop.com/designing-for-the-human-body-in-xr
Kinesphere (Laban Movement Analysis) http://nick-rood.blogspot.com/2013/11/research-project-laban-movement-analysis.html