Kinetic user interfaces (KUIs) are an emerging type of user interfaces that allow users to interact with computing devices though the motion of objects and bodies.

Instances of KUI are, for instance, Tangible User Interface

Tangible User Interface

A tangible user interface is a user interface in which a person interacts with digital information through the physical environment. The initial name was Graspable User Interface, which no longer is used....

, motion-aware games such as Wii

Wii

The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others...

 and Microsoft's Kinect,and other interactive projects.

KUI is also related to a new interaction design

Interaction design

In design, human–computer interaction, and software development, interaction design, often abbreviated IxD, is "the practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services." Like many other design fields interaction design also has an interest in form but its main...

 pattern focused on activities and to incidental interaction.