From PreHistoric Interfaces
to NearFuture Interactions
Jb Labrune - Jamie Zigelbaum - Hiroshi Ishii
MIT MediaLab 2009

1300
Automata
• Al-Jazari
• Tea Serving Robots

1500
DaVinci

1780
Louis XVI
Clocks
Aerostats
Water Robots
Fireworks

1850
Machines :: Franz Reulaux

1930
Robots
• Yasutaro Mitsui in the 1930’s

1900
Photographic Gun

1900
Opto|ElectroMechanical Study of Movement
• Jules-Etienne Marey
• Eadweard Muybridge

1920s
Acoustic Locators

Acoustic Locators

1920s
Acoustic Locators

1920s
Acoustic Locator

1950
SAGE - Lincoln Lab

1930
Pre-Memex
• Paul Outlet
• Emmanuel Goldberg

Bush

1945
Vannevar Bush - MEMEX

1950s
Wiener

1960s
Bell Labs - Shannon

1961
J.C.R Licklider

1960s
EAT :: Experiments in Art and Technology

1963
Ivan Sutherland & Bert Sutherland

1968
Doug Engelbart

1969
Ted Nelson : Xanadu

1969
Interactive Art :: Krueger, Senster

1972
LOGO
• Papert (BBN)
• Radia Perlman

1978
John Frazer

1978
Winograd - SHDRLU

1972
Alan Kay

1983
Ben Shneiderman - Direct Manipulation
• 1983 coined the term
Direct Manipulation

1980
Commercial GUIs
Xerox Star

Hutchins, Hollan, and Norman
• Direct Manipulation Interfaces. HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION, 1985,
Volume 1, pp. 311-338

1987
Hypercard to WWW

1990
Mark Weiser - Ubicomp
Natalie Jereminjenko

1990s
CMC - Mediaspaces

1995
Ishii -Tangible Interfaces

1997
Underkoffler - Gestural Interfaces

2008
Mit Medialab - Radical Atoms