A short history of more than 500 years of User Interface and Interaction design with machines. Presentation for the Kickoff day of MAS834 Tangible and Beyond class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

2. 1300
Automata
• Al-Jazari
• Tea Serving Robots

3. 1500
DaVinci

4. 1780
Louis XVI
Clocks
Aerostats
Water Robots
Fireworks

5. 1850
Machines :: Franz Reulaux

6. 1930
Robots
• Yasutaro Mitsui in the 1930’s

7. 1900
Photographic Gun

8. 1900
Opto|ElectroMechanical Study of Movement
• Jules-Etienne Marey
• Eadweard Muybridge

9. 1920s
Acoustic Locators

10. Acoustic Locators

11. 1920s
Acoustic Locators

12. 1920s
Acoustic Locator

13. 1950
SAGE - Lincoln Lab

14. 1930
Pre-Memex
• Paul Outlet
• Emmanuel Goldberg

15. Bush

16. 1945
Vannevar Bush - MEMEX

17. 1950s
Wiener

18. 1960s
Bell Labs - Shannon

19. 1961
J.C.R Licklider

20. 1960s
EAT :: Experiments in Art and Technology

21. 1963
Ivan Sutherland & Bert Sutherland

22. 1968
Doug Engelbart

23. 1969
Ted Nelson : Xanadu

24. 1969
Interactive Art :: Krueger, Senster

25. 1972
LOGO
• Papert (BBN)
• Radia Perlman

26. 1978
John Frazer

27. 1978
Winograd - SHDRLU

28. 1972
Alan Kay

29. 1983
Ben Shneiderman - Direct Manipulation
• 1983 coined the term
Direct Manipulation

30. 1980
Commercial GUIs
Xerox Star

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

32. 1987
Hypercard to WWW

33. 1990
Mark Weiser - Ubicomp
Natalie Jereminjenko

34. 1990s
CMC - Mediaspaces

35. 1995
Ishii -Tangible Interfaces

36. 1997
Underkoffler - Gestural Interfaces

37. 2008
Mit Medialab - Radical Atoms