Designing mid-air gesture interaction with mobile devices for older adults

Aiming at contributing to advance the research in HCI for older adults by em-powering them as active creators of the interaction and designing technologies that really satisfy their values, this chapter presents a perspective on the design of effective mid-air gesture interaction with mobile technology for seniors. We intro-duce the ageing population from this perspective and describe the main character-istics of the interaction based on mid-air gestures. Finally, we propose a set of rec-ommendations for the design of mid-air gesture interaction for older adults. Such recommendations are elaborated according to research on HCI, ageing and ergo-nomic principles, combined with findings from a number of user studies we con-ducted by following effective user-centred design methods to meet older people’s needs and values.