{"id":8268,"date":"2012-08-10T18:39:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T01:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betaknowledge.tumblr.com\/post\/29163352407"},"modified":"2017-08-18T17:57:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:57:55","slug":"working-on-the-curious-ritual-book-project-i-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2012\/08\/10\/working-on-the-curious-ritual-book-project-i-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Working on the \u201cCurious Ritual\u201d book project, I\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
Working on the \u201cCurious Ritual<\/a>\u201d book project, I found that interview of Bruce Sterling<\/a> very much in line with what we are exploring (with field observations as the one represented above):<\/p>\n Tish Shute: This year we have seen gestural interfaces go mainstream. What are the most interesting directions for gestural interfaces that you have seen emerge in recent months?<\/p>\n Bruce Sterling: To me, the most \u201cinteresting\u201d part is seeing people do gestural stuff in public. William Gibson, my fellow author, observes that cellphones have stolen the gestural language of cigarettes. There\u2019s lots of fidgeting, box tapping, ash-swiping, slipping boxes in and out of pockets\u2026 People quickly learn to do that without thinking twice, and they forget how weird it looks. It\u2019s \u201cdesign dissolving in behavior,\u201d as Adam Greenfield puts it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote> Working on the \u201cCurious Ritual\u201d book project, I found that interview of Bruce Sterling very much in line with what we are exploring (with field observations as the one represented above):<\/p>\n Tish Shute: This year we have seen gestural interfaces go m…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[149,169],"tags":[555],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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