1. A method for navigating through a data space, the method comprising: detecting a gesture of a body from gesture data received via a detector, wherein the gesture data is absolute three-space location data of an instantaneous state of the body at a point in time and physical space, the detecting comprising identifying the gesture using only the gesture data; translating the gesture to a gesture signal; and navigating through the data space in response to the gesture signal, wherein the data space is a data-representational space comprising a dataset represented in the physical space.