Obama, we concluded, had raised hopes – and that could be dangerous: if he did not in the very near future make some tangible gesture to show that the process of change had indeed begun, disappointment could only make matters worse.
As a tangible gesture for congratulation, welcome, and goodbye, the lei is a physical manifestation of Hawaii's aloha spirit.
Those are tangible gestures – the equivalent of bringing grief-stricken neighbours meals to sustain them, rather than sending a hastily-written card.
Using Tangible Landscape, stakeholders gather around a geographically realistic 3D visualization and explore management scenarios with instant feedback; users direct model simulations with intuitive tangible gestures and compare alternative strategies with an output dashboard.
The best way to do so is with obvious, tangible gestures of affection.
To overcome the limitations of conventional wayfinding aids, mobile devices with a real-time feed into AR can be considered because AR can be characterized by augmented visualization and intuitive interaction techniques such as natural language, tangible interaction and gesture recognition (Kim & Maher 2008).
These days we are witnessing a spread of many new digital systems in public spaces featuring easy to use and engaging interaction modalities, such as multi-touch, gestures, tangible, and voice.
Realized in June and exhibited at the Futur En Seine festival earlier this year, Arbréole explores the different ways people can interact in space, transforming users' subtle gestures into tangible, visual situations.
Yet even in these surroundings we can still feel Louise's all-too-human heartbeat, with Amy Adams's talent for telegraphing tangible emotions via tiny facial gestures shining through the isolating wrap of an orange hazmat suit.
The process of Irwin's creative thought becoming the final product of a show evokes a similar reaction to the 3 Howard Street's 'early retirement': a conceptual and spiritual gesture that becomes almost tangible.
They can convey messages, even feelings, he said, "but it's a tangible, physical communication" through sets of gestures and sounds -- not telepathy.
