CS 6750 Intro to HCI lecture

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A Brief Historyof HCI
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A Brief History of HCI

• Technology innovations and innovators

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Agenda

• Questions
• Quick end to Mondays lecture
• The technology of interaction
• History of interactive breakthroughs

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Abowd HCI propaganda

• 3 Us of HCI
• HCI is HARD, though many consider it a soft
  topic.

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The technology of interaction

• DFAB, Ch. 2
• UI technology is not really the focus of this
  course, but we have a whole course on this (CS
  6456)
• We will revisit some of the more novel
  technologies later in the course.

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History of interactive breakthroughs

• Book is thematic
• Rheingolds Tools for Thought
• on-line
• Know the people!

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Other good resources

• Michael A. Hiltzik Dealers of Lightning Xerox
  PARC and the dawn of the computer age. Harper
  Business, 1999.
• See online resources on class Web page.

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Paradigm shifts

• Networks and time-sharing
• Video display units
• Programming toolkits

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Paradigm shifts (contd)

• Personal computing
• Windows
• Metaphors

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Paradigm shifts (contd)

• Direct manipulation
• Language vs. action (agents)
• Hypertext/WWW

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Paradigm shifts (contd)

• Multi-modality
• CSCW
• Ubiquitous computing
• Sensor-based or context-aware

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The people responsible