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Back to ChildhoodInfantilisation of UI Design?Matthias Müller-Prove, Dipl.-Inform. User Experience Principal, Oracle HyperKult XX, Lüneburg, 8 July 2011

Proposition Human development and the evolution of user interface paradigms happen(ed) in 3 corresponding stages. The stages do not supersede each other – they start subsequently and coexist over time.

Jean Piaget / Jerome Bruner

1 enactive mentalitiy Bruner’s Mentality Theory

cc dulcelife http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/dulcelife/8505313/ kinesthetic/sensomotoric, enactive

cc Squiggle http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/stephenr/2331677192/preoperational: playing and building

2 iconic mentality Bruner’s Mentality Theory

cc Minneapolis Institute of Arts http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/minneapolisinstituteofarts/4926356727/operational/visual, iconic

3 symbolic mentality Bruner’s Mentality Theory

formal, symbolic cc gail m tang http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/gailtang/3252519764/

enactive iconic symbolic 1 1/2 4-8 12 yrs. Bruner’s Mentalities

3 CLI Command Line Interfaces

very cryptic, poor usability. www.operating-system.org Good for experts who doscripting and programming

2 GUI Graphical User InterfacesWindows, Icons, Menus, Pointing Device & Desktop

Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad (1963)

Timothy Johnson a few years later.

Ivan Sutherland’s PhD Thesis, 1963

SketchpadUse of light penInteractive line drawingsConstraints resolution engineObject-based computer aided design (CAD)On a TX-2 computer at MIT Lincoln Lab 69,632 words with 36 bits (~306 KByte)

http://www.deepamehta.de/docs/talk.htmlDoug Engelbart’s NLS/Augment (1963-72)

Mouse (1963) and Chording Keyset

NLS/AugmentMouse (1963)Chording-KeysetWindowsInteractive text editing and outlinerHypertextE-MailTime-SharingVideo Conferencing and CSCW2nd node of the ARPANet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alan_Kay_and_the_prototype_of_Dynabook,_pt._5_(3010032738).jpg Alan Kay - Dynabook (concept 1972)

Doing with images makes symbols. Alan Kay

The CLI survived as a terminal window.

The Web also has its CLI!

1 TUI & “NUI” Tangible and “Natural” User Interfaces User InterSurfacePhysical objects combined with digital information Multi-Touch & Gestures, Lots of sensors, Mobility

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactable Reactable

cc arteunporro http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/arteunporro/870265352/

SoundScape for iPad

Gravity and Touch atSoundDrop for iPad

Gravitarium2 for iPad

A Personal Dynamic Medium for Children of all Ages Alan Kay (1972)

http://ﬂickr.com/photos/prupert/68375339/ A personal dynamic medium…

…for children of all ages

enactive iconic symbolicTUI CLI GUI

Thanks!cc by Steve Paine http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/umpcportal/4581962986/ Matthias Müller-Prove | mprove.de

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