Extending Actionsketch for new interaction styles: Gestural interfaces and interactive environments

Abstract

Sketching is considered a core activity in design and is a well-established practice in many areas of design. Interaction design is a new field of design that poses challenges for sketching, due to particular characteristics of the field such as being dynamic and "immaterial". To address these challenges a technique was proposed to improve the process of sketching for interaction design. It was originally proposed for WIMP interfaces and has been extended for multi-touch interfaces. In this article we verify how to apply the technique to other interaction styles, namely gestural interfaces and interaction environments. We then analyze these adaptations and extract some general rules for this kind of modification. We conclude the article with some future directions. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.