Joshua Blake, Natural User Interfaces in .NET.pdf

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1: Introducing NUI Concepts
Chapter 1: The Natural User Interface revolution
Chapter 2: Understanding OCGM: Objects and Containers
Chapter 3: Understanding OCGM: Gestures and Manipulations
Part 2: Learning WPF Touch and Surface SDK
Chapter 4: Your first multi-touch application
Sub-part: Controls updated for touch
Chapter 5: Using traditional Surface SDK controls
Sub-part: Controls designed for touch
Chapter 6: Data binding with ScatterView
Chapter 7: Learning new Surface SDK controls
Sub-part: Touch APIs
Chapter 8: Accessing raw touch information
Chapter 9: Manipulating the interface
Chapter 10: Integrating Surface frameworks
Part 3: Building Surface experiences
Chapter 11: Designing for Surface
Chapter 12: Developing for Surface
Appendices
Appendix A: Setting up your development environment
Appendix B: Comparing WPF, Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7
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The natural user interface revolution
You are the person we've been waiting for. The people of the world are ready to change how they interact
puting devices. For years, puter interfaces in movies and academic research has
teased the public while technology lagged. This gap has slowly been closing and now the technology of
today has caught up with the interfaces of the future. Everything we have been imagining is now possible.
All that is needed is someone to create software that takes advantage