17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the visual example gesture corresponds to a command generally recognized by the gesture recognition tutorial system.
15. At a gesture recognition tutorial system including a motion-sensitive display surface capable of recognizing various forms of user interaction with the surface simultaneously from a plurality users, a method of providing a gesture tutorial mechanism for instructing one or more users how to properly enter program commands via the motion-sensitive display surface using gestures, the method comprising: determining that a received user-performed gesture is an unrecognized command, the gesture not corresponding to gesture commands recognized by one or more programs running on the gesture recognition tutorial system's motion-sensitive display surface; identifying one or more gesture commands similar to the received user-performed gesture that are recognized by a program of a motion-sensitive display surface, the motion-sensitive display surface being configured to detect multiple simultaneous user movements of objects over the surface from a plurality of simultaneous motion-sensitive display surface users, the surface being configured to recognize such multi-user interaction therewith; and based on the identified one or more gesture commands, displaying a visual example of a gesture capable of being performed on the motion-sensitive display surface, wherein the visual example of the gesture comprises one or more graphical, non-textual images that depict one or more motions a user can perform for executing the one or more gesture commands of a program running on the motion-sensitive display surface.