Designing Gestural Interfaces

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

It's easy to come up with an idea for a book, but it's much harder to write one. It's a task that, like most other products, requires lots of people to make it a reality.

This book would not be possible without the patience, support, and 6:00 a.m. writing wake-up calls of my wife, Rachael King. Her encouragement and understanding kept me going on those days when I could eek out only a sentence—which were many.

My daughter Fiona's insistence that I not work on this book and instead play Wii with her also, I'm sure, kept me sane and contributed vastly to the quality of this tome. (At the very least, I got to practice many interactive gestures!)

My family and friends have my undying gratitude for their love, patience, and support throughout this process, especially my parents.

My former colleagues at Adaptive Path fed me a constant diet of new material, both in links to interesting stuff and in projects to work on that constantly expanded what I knew—or needed to know—to make this book as rich as it is.

This book would be boring indeed without the images contained therein, and I'd like to thank the companies that contributed them and the individuals who graciously made their photographs available via Creative Commons licenses for commercial use.

My colleague and friend, Rachel Glaves, created many of the illustrations in the book, and the book is much improved because of it.

My other colleague and friend, Sarah B. Nelson, took the photographs in the appendix and made them ...