About the Authors

Clemente Giorio is an independent Consultant; he cooperated with Microsoft SrL for the development of a prototype that uses the Kinect sensor. He is interested in Human-computer Interface (HCI) and multimodal interaction.

I would first like to thank my family, for their continuous support throughout my time in University.

I would like to express my gratitude to the many people who saw me through this book. During the evolution of this book, I have accumulated many debts, only few of which I have space to acknowledge here.

Writing of this book has been a joint enterprise and a collaborative exercise. Apart from the names mentioned, there are many others who contributed. I appreciate their help and thank them for their support.

Massimo Fascinari is a Solution Architect at Avanade, where he designs and delivers software development solutions to companies throughout the UK and Ireland. His interest in Kinect and human-machine interaction started during his research on increasing the usability and adoption of collaboration solutions.

I would like to thank my wife Edyta, who has been supporting me while I was working on the book.