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TOWARD A THEORY OF GESTURE DESIGN
by
Diane Tucker
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree of
MASTER OF FINE ARTS
(INTERACTIVE MEDIA)
May 2011
Copyright 2011 Diane Tucker
Object Description
| Title | Toward a theory of gesture design |
| Author | Tucker, Diane |
| Author email | diane.tucker@gmail.com; dmtucker@usc.edu |
| Degree | Master of Fine Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Interactive Media |
| School | School of Cinematic Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-05-02 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-05-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Bolas, Mark |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Fullerton, Tracy Kratky, Andreas Malamed, Laird |
| Abstract | The enormous transformation in how humans engage with technologies – providing direct access through touch or gesture, without any mediating controller – has just reached mainstream computing, games and home theaters, with the recent releases of the Kinect and the WAVI Xtion. This change has opened up huge new opportunities for the design of games, interactive experiences and applications. This paper presents the evidence of the connection between the body and perceptions, emotions, and mental states; the powerful, extensive, and surprising ways those connections are manifest; and the unexpected and very potent role that metaphor plays. This paper then presents how that evidence points to a way of employing the emotional and cognitive armature attached to human movement as a means of developing emotionally compelling gestural game-play. |
| Keyword | game design; gesture; gestural vocabulary; gestural design; gesture design; user interface design; human computer interaction; human centered computing; emotion in games; design; metaphor |
| Coverage date | 1990/2011 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3891 |
| Rights | Tucker, Diane |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-tucker-4587 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume29/etd-tucker-4587.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Full text | TOWARD A THEORY OF GESTURE DESIGN by Diane Tucker A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF FINE ARTS (INTERACTIVE MEDIA) May 2011 Copyright 2011 Diane Tucker |
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