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Essential Guide to User Interface Design. PART 1 The User Interface – Introduction and Overview Chapter 1 – Importance of the User Interface. Chapter 1 – Importance of the UI. Amount of programming code devoted to UI > 50% Defining the UI (subset of HCI) I/O Importance of Good Design
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Essential Guide to User Interface Design PART 1 The User Interface – Introduction and Overview Chapter 1 – Importance of the User Interface
Chapter 1 – Importance of the UI • Amount of programming code devoted to UI > 50% • Defining the UI (subset of HCI) • I/O • Importance of Good Design • What is “good design”? • Is there time? • Benefits of Good Design
Chapter 1 – Importance of the UI • History of HCI
18th Century: Jacquard’s Loom London Museum of Science Columbus State University 11/14/2014
1940s British Computers • Collusus – Bletchley Park • Manchester Baby – University of Manchester (reproduction)
RAND’s vision of the future From ImageShack web site //www.imageshack.us ; original source unknown
Eniac (1943) • ENIAC, the world's first all electronic numerical integrator and computer. From IBM Archives.
Punch card, keypunch and then VDUs Slide 1- 9
PLATO (computer system) • Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations -first (ca. 1960, on ILLIAC I) generalized computer assisted instruction system.
Ivan Sutherland’s SketchPad-1963 Sophisticated drawing package hierarchical structures defined pictures and sub-pictures • object-oriented programming • Icons • input techniques (light pen) • separation of screen from drawing coordinates From http://accad.osu.edu/~waynec/history/images/ivan-sutherland.jpg
The First Computer Mouse (about 1964) Designed by Douglas Engelbart and Bill Inglés at the Stanford Research Institute (improved at Xerox PARC).
Dynabook vision - Alan Kay (1969) • prototype of a notebook computer: • “Imagine having your own self-contained knowledge manipulator in a portable package the size and shape of an ordinary notebook. Suppose it had enough power to out-race your senses of sight and hearing, enough capacity to store for later retrieval thousands of page-equivalents of reference materials, poems, letters, recipes, records, drawings, animations, musical scores...”
REFERENCES • A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technologyby Brad A. Myers – 1996 • Dealers of Lightning XEROX parc and the dawn of the computer age by Michael A. Hiltzik – 1999 • http://oldcomputers.net/