Video Research: What’s your Gesture from Jones Merc on Vimeo.
To see if gesture trends can be found I asked multiple people to perform a gesture to each of eleven terms. They were asked to only use one hand and did not have time to think about the gesture in beforehand. I found that in some cases the results were pretty predictable and most of the gestures were alike. Other terms provoked a high diversity of different gestures and sometimes very creative gestures were used.
Another finding was that the interface that would be controlled with such gestures would directly influence the gesture itself. A lot of people asked how the object to control would look like and said that they may would have come up with different gestures if the’d seen the object or the interface respectively.
To see the full length gesture video go here.
