Jamie Zigelbaum, Daniel Leithinger, Alan Browning, Olivier Bau, Adam Kumpf, Kyle Buza, and Hiroshi Ishii
Jamie Zigelbaum, Daniel Leithinger, Alan Browning, Olivier Bau, Adam Kumpf, Kyle Buza, and Hiroshi Ishii

http://zig.media.mit.edu/Work/G-stalt

“g-stalt” is a whole-handed, gestural interface for media navigation inspired by the promise of technologically enabled telekinesis. Built for Oblong Industries’ g-speak spatial operating environment, g-stalt allows us­ers to view photographic and videographic media collaboratively and concurrently — operating the system with their hands, fingers, and gestures in three-dimensional space. Working with Oblong we have created a vocabulary of over 20 body-hand-finger configurations for g-stalt which together form the initial seed of an embodied, physical language for computational interaction. In the present this grammar enables g-stalt users to search flickr or rapidly navigate and play a library of Tex Avery’s cartoons from MGM (1942-1955). In the future this grammar could do much, much more.