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13. TOC
1. A short history of human computer interaction part 1
a. Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)
i. The initiation of input & output modalities
ii. Grace Hopper bridged human language and machine language
b. Vannevar Bush and his MEMEX
i. A hypothetical personal information-processing machine
c. Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad
i. A working prototype of modern GUI with essential elements
d. Ted Nelson`s hypertext
i. A proposal how information has to be structured and presented in computer
e. NLS (oN-Line System) interface by Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart and the Augmentation Research
Center
i. A complete demonstration of modern HCI requirements for end-users
ii. Four basic classes of augmentation means that extend human capabilities.
15. A short history of human-computer interaction*
to understand why it becomes multidisciplinary
to acquire the past achievement and vision
to obtain perspective that enables anticipation through analysis
to identify the technologies contributed to enhance input/output
modalities in HCI
*Grudin, Jonathan. “A Moving Target: The Evolution of Human–Computer Interaction.” In Human Computer
Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications, Third Edition, edited by
Julie A. Jacko, 3rd ed., xxvii–lxi. Taylor & Francis, 2012.
16. ■ Human Computer Interaction
i. A narrower body of study under computer science†
ii. Goal
× to improve computer more effective as a tool for human
× to discover more effective way for representation and distribution of information
■ 4 major disciplines related Human-computer interaction
i. Computer Science (CS)
× “a broad discipline covering the theory and practice of hardware and software
design”
ii. Human Factors / Ergonomics (HF or HF&E)
× human factors and ergonomics referring interchangeable disciplines
iii. Information Systems (IS)
× “the management discipline that has also been labeled Data Processing (DP) and
Management Information Systems (MIS)”
iv. Library and Information Science (LIS)
* Definitions
17. 1945~1950 1950~1960 1960~1970 1970-1985 1985~1995 1995~2010
New
Invention
The
Calculator
The Giant
Brain
Service
Industry
My
productive
tool Ubiquity
user Inventors
Experts and
Pioneers
Computer Center
Priests
Professional
employees
geeks everyone
interface cables
Punch cards and
tapes
Teletype and
terminal
Green-screen
Alphanumeric
GUI
GUIs & Ambient
Interface
objective
Brute Force
Arithmetic
High speed
calculation
Batch processing Time-sharing Package software
Software as
service
consumer
Military &
Government
Scientist
Information
Conglomerate
Most Business
Increasing mobile
home users
Toy
18. From invention to maturity. Jacko, Julie A., ed. Human Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging
Applications, Third Edition. 3rd ed. Taylor & Francis, 2012. p.lii
1945~1950 1950~1960 1960~1970 1970-1985 1985~1995 1995~2010
New
Invention
The
Calculator
The Giant
Brain
Service
Industry
My
productive
tool Ubiquity
user Inventors
Experts and
Pioneers
Computer Center
Priests
Professional
employees
geeks everyone
interface cables
Punch cards and
tapes
Teletype and
terminal
Green-screen
Alphanumeric
GUI
GUIs & Ambient
Interface
objective
Brute Force
Arithmetic
High speed
calculation
Batch processing Time-sharing Package software
Software as
service
consumer
Military &
Government
Scientist
Information
Conglomerate
Most Business
Increasing mobile
home users
Toy
Motivation
(inter) personal
Inside
organization
Inter-organization Industry / society
Boundary of Influence
From invention to maturity. Jacko, Julie A., ed. Human Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging
Applications, Third Edition. 3rd ed. Taylor & Francis, 2012. p.lii
27. What was going on in 1940’s?
ENIAC Computer History Archives Project - remastered 1946 Film, First Military Giant Brain Computer@youtube
28. 1.4 Managing Vacuum Tubes
1. One of the first general purpose computers
a. ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)
➜ ENIAC, built in 1943~1945 (announced officially in 1946)
➜ Planned to calculate war time calculation, but used for complex calculation for scientific
and military purpose
➜ Input―tactile (switches and knobs) & IBM card reader
➜ Output―IBM card punch & tabulator
b. UNIVAC (UNIVersal Automatic Computer)
➜ The first commercially available digital computer
× Process of numerical and textual data
2. Grace Hopper
a. Programmer-computer interaction
b. Inventor of compiler (a software converts high level programming language into low level
language)
➜ “She described her goal as freeing mathematicians to do mathematics (Hopper 1952; see
also Sammet 1992). This is echoed in today’s usability goal of freeing users to do their
work.”
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/eniac.html
29. *Goldstine, H. H., and Adele Goldstine. “The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC).” Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to
Computation, vol. 2, no. 15, 1946, pp. 97–110. JSTOR, doi:10.2307/2002620.
Programmers
(operators)
Kay McNulty
Betty Jennings
Betty Snyder
Marlyn Meltzer
Fran Bilas
Ruth Lichterman
“Numbers are introduced into the ENIAC by means of a
unit called the constant transmitter which operates in
conjunction with an IBM card reader.The reader scans
standard punched cards (which hold up to 80 digits
and 16 signs) … The constant transmitter makes these
numbers available in the form of electrical signals as they
are required. Similarly, results computed in the ENIAC
may be punched on cards by the ENIAC's printer unit
operating in conjunction with an IBM card punch.
Tables can be automatically printed from the cards by
means of an IBM tabulator.”*
35. 1.3 Vannevar Bush and Microfilm Machines
1. Vannevar Bush
a. MEMEX in “As We May Think”, 1945 📖
➜ Definition
× “a hypothetical microfilm-based electromechanical (analog) information-
processing machine” (never built)
× “a conceptual ancestor to electronic linking of material” (Paul, 2015)
➜ Goal
× “a personal workstation that enables a professional to quickly index and retrieve
documents or pictures and create hypertext-like associations among them.”
× Potential target client
a. FBI, CIA
➜ Technology
× Microfilm as a storage medium
a. Light & cheap (than magnetic tapes and other succeeding media)
b. easy to manage & archive by photoreceptors
36. “Our ineptitude in getting at the record
is largely caused by the artificiality of
systems of indexing. When data of
any sort are placed in storage, they are
filed alphabetically or numerically,
and information is found (when it is) by
tracing it down from subclass to
subclass. It can be in only one place,
unless duplicates are used; one has to
have rules as to which path will locate
it, and the rules are cumbersome.
Having found one item, moreover, one
has to emerge from the system and re-
enter on a new path.”
Bush, Vannevar. “As We May Think.” The Atlantic, July 1945. The Atlantic,
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/, paragraph 6.
37. The human mind does not work that
way. It operates by association. With
one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly
to the next that is suggested by the
association of thoughts, in accordance
with some intricate web of trails
carried by the cells of the brain. It has
other characteristics, of course; trails
that are not frequently followed are
prone to fade, items are not fully
permanent, memory is transitory. Yet
the speed of action, the intricacy of
trails, the detail of mental pictures, is
awe-inspiring beyond all else in nature.
Bush, Vannevar. “As We May Think.” The Atlantic, July 1945. The Atlantic,
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/, paragraph 6.
39. Consider a future device for individual use,
which is a sort of mechanized private file
and library. It needs a name, and, to coin
one at random, "memex" will do. A memex
is a device in which an individual stores all
his books, records, and communications, …
It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his
memory. … In one end is the stored
material. The matter of bulk is well taken
care of by improved microfilm. … Most of
the memex contents are purchased on
microfilm ready for insertion. Books of all
sorts, pictures, current periodicals,
newspapers, are thus obtained and dropped
into place. …
40. … He can add marginal notes and comments, taking advantage of one possible type of dry
photography, and it could even be arranged so that he can do this by a stylus scheme, such as is
now employed in the telautograph seen in railroad waiting rooms, just as though he had the
physical page before him.
41. … He can add marginal notes and comments, taking advantage of one possible type of dry
photography, and it could even be arranged so that he can do this by a stylus scheme, such as is
now employed in the telautograph seen in railroad waiting rooms, just as though he had the
physical page before him.
42. 1.3 Vannevar Bush and Microfilm Machines
1. Vannevar Bush
a. MEMEX in “As We May Think”, 1945 📖
➜ Input
× Tactile; lever, button, stylus
× Vision; scanner
➜ Output
× Vision; screen
➜ Result
× Failed because
a. Classification problem; “Metadata design is still a research challenge.”
b. Overly ambitious compression and speed goals & Patent
c. “None of his many projects included designs for the “essential” associative
linking.”
d. “Computers were clearly inferior to microfilm.”
44. ■ Ivan Sutherland
➜ Ivan Sutherland received a Ph.D. degree from MIT in 1963 and an honorary D.Sc. degree
from UNC in 1986. He is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the
National Academy of Engineering. He was the 1988 recipient of the Turing award and the
2012 recipient of the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology. Dr. Sutherland is author of over
60 patents, as well as numerous papers. He makes his home in Portland where he works at
Portland State University (PSU) in the Asynchronous Research Center (ARC) that he founded
with his wife, Marly Roncken, in 2008.*
➜ Sketchpad system, 1963
1.5.2 Visions and Demonstrations
*https://cs.unc.edu/50th/celebration/symposium/
45. ■ Ivan Sutherland
➜ Sketchpad system, 1963
× A working prototype of modern GUI
▪ object-oriented programming concepts ⇢ Object (original) & instance
▪ The copying, moving, and deleting of hierarchically organized objects with
light-pen (not clipboard!)
× Modalities
▪ Input
▫ Tactile; buttons. stylus
▪ Output
▫ Vision; screen
1.5.2 Visions and Demonstrations
46. ■ Ted Nelson, majored sociology
➜ Coined the term, Hypertext in Nelson, Theodor H. "Complex information processing: a
file structure for the complex, the changing and the indeterminate." Proceedings of the
1965 20th national conference. ACM, 1965.
× “A generic term covering a number of techniques used to create and view
multidimensional documents, which may be entered at many points and which
may be browsed in any order by interactively choosing words or key phrases as
search parameters for the next text image to be viewed.” A Dictionary of
Computing, Oxford Paperback Reference
1.5.2 Visions and Demonstrations
47. Nelson, Theodor H. "Complex information processing: a file structure for the complex, the changing and the indeterminate." Proceedings of the 1965 20th national
conference. ACM, 1965. p.42
“Let me introduce the word "hypertext"***** to mean a body of written or pictorial
material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be
presented or represented on paper. It may contain summaries, or maps of its contents
and their interrelations;
……
Films, sound recordings, and video recordings are also linear strings , basically for
mechanical reasons. But these, too, can now be arranged as non-linear systems―for
instance, lattices-- for editing purposes, or for display with different emphasis.”
{transclusion & parallel like wikipedia and youtube}
48. ■ Ted Nelson, majored sociology
➜ Coined the term, Hypertext in Nelson, Theodor H. "Complex information processing: a
file structure for the complex, the changing and the indeterminate." Proceedings of the
1965 20th national conference. ACM, 1965.
1.5.2 Visions and Demonstrations
49. ■ Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart and the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research
Institute (SRI)
➜ 1968 Joint Computer Conference (9 Dec 1968)
× Demonstration of NLS (computer system / oN-Line System)
× A complete demonstration of modern HCI requirements for end-users
× Four basic classes of augmentation means that extend human capabilities.
1.5.2 Visions and Demonstrations
50. Moggridge, Bill. Designing Interactions. 1 edition, The MIT Press, 2007. p.32
Physical objects designed to provide for human
comfort, the manipulation of things or materials,
and the manipulation of symbols.
The way in which the individual classifies the picture of
his world into the concepts that his mind uses to model
that world, and the symbols that he attaches to those
concepts and uses in consciously manipulating the
concepts (“thinking”).
Artifacts Language
Methodology Training
The methods, procedures, and strategies with
which an individual organizes his goal-centered
(problem-solving) activity.
The conditioning needed by the individual to bring his
skills in using augmentation means 1, 2, and 3 to the
point where they are operationally effective.
53. https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/macos/overview/themes/
Physical objects designed to provide for human
comfort, the manipulation of things or materials,
and the manipulation of symbols.
The way in which the individual classifies the picture of
his world into the concepts that his mind uses to model
that world, and the symbols that he attaches to those
concepts and uses in consciously manipulating the
concepts (“thinking”).
Artifacts Language
Methodology Training
The methods, procedures, and strategies with
which an individual organizes his goal-centered
(problem-solving) activity.
The conditioning needed by the individual to bring his
skills in using augmentation means 1, 2, and 3 to the
point where they are operationally effective.
54. ■ Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart and the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research
Institute (SRI)
➜ 1968 Joint Computer Conference (9 Dec 1968)
× Demonstration of NLS (computer system / oN-Line System)
× Achievement
▪ “the ideas of bitmapping, windows, and direct manipulation through a
mouse” (Paul, 2014)
▪ “The direct manipulation of this space by pointing or dragging was made
possible by Engelbart’s invention of the mouse, the extension of the user’s
hand into dataspace. (Paul, 2014)
1.5.2 Visions and Demonstrations
55. ■ Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart and the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research
Institute (SRI)
➜ 1968 Joint Computer Conference (9 Dec 1968)
× Demonstration of NLS (computer system / oN-Line System)
× Modalities
▪ Input―tactile, vision, audible
▪ Output―vision, audible
1.5.2 Visions and Demonstrations
62. 1. Bush, Vannevar. “As We May Think.” The Atlantic, July 1945. The Atlantic,
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/, paragraph 6.
2. Campbell-Kelly, Martin, William Aspray, Nathan Ensmenger, Jeffrey R. Yost, and William Aspray. Computer: A History of the
Information Machine. Third edition. The Sloan Technology Series. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, A Member of the Perseus
Books Group, 2014.
3. Grudin, Jonathan. “A Moving Target: The Evolution of Human–Computer Interaction.” Human Computer Interaction
Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications, Third Edition, edited by Julie A. Jacko, 3rd
ed., Taylor & Francis, 2012, pp. xxvii–lxi.
4. Moggridge, Bill. Designing Interactions. 1 edition, The MIT Press, 2007.
5. Nelson, Theodor H. "Complex information processing: a file structure for the complex, the changing and the indeterminate."
Proceedings of the 1965 20th national conference. ACM, 1965. P.42
6. Paul, Christiane. Digital Art. Thames & Hudson, 2015.
64. ➜ ENIAC
× ENIAC: Celebrating Penn Engineering History
× Computer HIstory Museum Entry
× Programming the ENIAC
× The Forgotten Female Programmers Who Created Modern Tech, NPR
× ENIAC Programmers project
➜ Sketchpad
× Resource Page on Early HCI Research by the Lincoln Lab TX-2 Group by Bill
Buxton
× Sketchpad Demonstration on YouTube
➜ Ted Nelson
× His personal website ⇢ http://ted.hyperland.com/
× Youtube channel
➜ Demonstration of NLS (computer system / oN-Line System)
× The Mother of All Demos: The 1968 presentation that sparked a tech
revolution on computerworld.com
× Highlights of the 1968 "Mother of All Demos" with labeled youtube videos
from dougengelbart.org
× Detailed Onscreen Outline from Doug's 1968 Demo from dougengelbart.org
Editor's Notes
† “computer science The study of computers and their application. This is a broad discipline covering the theory and practice of hardware and software design.” “... It is not a science in the strict sense of being a discipline employing scientific method to explain phenomena in nature or society (though it has connections with physics, psychology, and behavioural science), but rather in the looser sense of being a systematic body of knowledge with a foundation of theory. Since however it is ultimately concerned with practical problems concerning the design and construction of useful systems, within constraints of cost and acceptability, it is as much a branch of engineering as it is a science.””
Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, " memex" will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.
It consists of a desk, and while it can presumably be operated from a distance, it is primarily the piece of furniture at which he works. On the top are slanting translucent screens, on which material can be projected for convenient reading. There is a keyboard, and sets of buttons and levers. Otherwise it looks like an ordinary desk.
In one end is the stored material. The matter of bulk is well taken care of by improved microfilm. Only a small part of the interior of the memsx is devoted to storage, the rest to mechanism. Yet if the user inserted 5000 pages of material a day it would take him hundreds of years to fill the repository, so he can be profligate and enter material freely.
Most of the memex contents are purchased on microfilm ready for insertion. Books of all sorts, pictures, current periodicals, newspapers, are thus obtained and dropped into place. Business correspondence takes the same path. And there is provision for direct entry. On the top of the memex is a transparent platen. On this are placed longhand notes, photographs, memoranda, all sorts of things. When one is in place, the depression of a lever causes it to be photographed onto the next blank space in a section of the memex fil, dry photography being employed.
There is, of course, provision for consultation of the record by the usual scheme of indexing. If the user wishes to consult a certain book, he taps its code on the keyboard, and the title page of the book promptly appears before him, projected onto one of his viewing positions. Frequently-used codes are mnemonic, so that he seldom consults his code book; but when he does, a single tap of a key projects it for his use. Moreover, he has supplemental levers. On deflecting one of these levers to the right he runs through the book before him, each page in turn being projected at a speed which just allows a recognizing glance at each. If he deflects it further to the right, he steps through the book i0 pages at a time; still further at i00 pages at a time. Deflection to the left gives him the same control backwards.
A special button transfers him immediately to the first page of the index. Any given book of his library can thus be called up and consulted with far greater facility than if it were taken from a shelf. As he has several projection positions, he can leave one item in position while he calls up another. He can add marginal notes and comments, taking advantage of one possible type of dry photography, and it could even be arranged so that he can do this by a stylus scheme, such as is now employed in the telautograph seen in railroad waiting rooms, just as though he had the physical page before him.
Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, " memex" will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.
It consists of a desk, and while it can presumably be operated from a distance, it is primarily the piece of furniture at which he works. On the top are slanting translucent screens, on which material can be projected for convenient reading. There is a keyboard, and sets of buttons and levers. Otherwise it looks like an ordinary desk.
In one end is the stored material. The matter of bulk is well taken care of by improved microfilm. Only a small part of the interior of the memsx is devoted to storage, the rest to mechanism. Yet if the user inserted 5000 pages of material a day it would take him hundreds of years to fill the repository, so he can be profligate and enter material freely.
Most of the memex contents are purchased on microfilm ready for insertion. Books of all sorts, pictures, current periodicals, newspapers, are thus obtained and dropped into place. Business correspondence takes the same path. And there is provision for direct entry. On the top of the memex is a transparent platen. On this are placed longhand notes, photographs, memoranda, all sorts of things. When one is in place, the depression of a lever causes it to be photographed onto the next blank space in a section of the memex fil, dry photography being employed.
There is, of course, provision for consultation of the record by the usual scheme of indexing. If the user wishes to consult a certain book, he taps its code on the keyboard, and the title page of the book promptly appears before him, projected onto one of his viewing positions. Frequently-used codes are mnemonic, so that he seldom consults his code book; but when he does, a single tap of a key projects it for his use. Moreover, he has supplemental levers. On deflecting one of these levers to the right he runs through the book before him, each page in turn being projected at a speed which just allows a recognizing glance at each. If he deflects it further to the right, he steps through the book i0 pages at a time; still further at i00 pages at a time. Deflection to the left gives him the same control backwards.
A special button transfers him immediately to the first page of the index. Any given book of his library can thus be called up and consulted with far greater facility than if it were taken from a shelf. As he has several projection positions, he can leave one item in position while he calls up another. He can add marginal notes and comments, taking advantage of one possible type of dry photography, and it could even be arranged so that he can do this by a stylus scheme, such as is now employed in the telautograph seen in railroad waiting rooms, just as though he had the physical page before him.
Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, " memex" will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.
It consists of a desk, and while it can presumably be operated from a distance, it is primarily the piece of furniture at which he works. On the top are slanting translucent screens, on which material can be projected for convenient reading. There is a keyboard, and sets of buttons and levers. Otherwise it looks like an ordinary desk.
In one end is the stored material. The matter of bulk is well taken care of by improved microfilm. Only a small part of the interior of the memsx is devoted to storage, the rest to mechanism. Yet if the user inserted 5000 pages of material a day it would take him hundreds of years to fill the repository, so he can be profligate and enter material freely.
Most of the memex contents are purchased on microfilm ready for insertion. Books of all sorts, pictures, current periodicals, newspapers, are thus obtained and dropped into place. Business correspondence takes the same path. And there is provision for direct entry. On the top of the memex is a transparent platen. On this are placed longhand notes, photographs, memoranda, all sorts of things. When one is in place, the depression of a lever causes it to be photographed onto the next blank space in a section of the memex fil, dry photography being employed.
There is, of course, provision for consultation of the record by the usual scheme of indexing. If the user wishes to consult a certain book, he taps its code on the keyboard, and the title page of the book promptly appears before him, projected onto one of his viewing positions. Frequently-used codes are mnemonic, so that he seldom consults his code book; but when he does, a single tap of a key projects it for his use. Moreover, he has supplemental levers. On deflecting one of these levers to the right he runs through the book before him, each page in turn being projected at a speed which just allows a recognizing glance at each. If he deflects it further to the right, he steps through the book i0 pages at a time; still further at i00 pages at a time. Deflection to the left gives him the same control backwards.
A special button transfers him immediately to the first page of the index. Any given book of his library can thus be called up and consulted with far greater facility than if it were taken from a shelf. As he has several projection positions, he can leave one item in position while he calls up another. He can add marginal notes and comments, taking advantage of one possible type of dry photography, and it could even be arranged so that he can do this by a stylus scheme, such as is now employed in the telautograph seen in railroad waiting rooms, just as though he had the physical page before him.