Back to the future the way to a personal dynamic medium for creative thought Matthias Muller-Prove == "I don't know who discovered water, but i know it wasn't a fish" Marshall McLuhan == Vannevar Bush (1890- 1974) As we may think "...publication has been extended far beyond our present ability yo make real use of the record" He envisioned a system, the MEMEX. (pictures of how a memex machine could have worked) based on microfilms projected to screens on top allthough the machine has never been built BBC publish a picture of what the machine would probably look like. Not only output machine, also input. this system also included hiper-text traits, it included trails to other documents at the bottom of each page. == Sputnik Shock 1957 First artificail satelite lauched by ussr 1958 Advanced research project agency (arpa) project == Joseph R licklider (1915 1990) 1960 Man Computer Symbiosis "The hope is that... human brains and computing machines will be couple together very tighly and that the resulting partnership will as no human brrain as ever thought and processe data..." (quote for the point of humam+machine brains beeing more able to think and process information as never been seen before) Several project at DARPPA == Ivan Sutherland - 1938 1963 Sketchpad, a man-machine graphical communication system it was a real system, built at the time (picture of the interface) (picture of the sketchpad) introduced some first principles of object orientation (film) several operations that are now common: constraint systems applied to graphical objects (using a light pen to give part of commands) clipping windows == Ivan Sutherland (1938-) == Theodor Homl nNlson 1965 hypertext 1967 Hypertext Ediiting System (HES) by ted nelson and andries van dam: actually used for the Apollo mission to the moon to write to documentation. 1972 ComputerLib/Dream Machines (a book written) -- Xanadu 20 years later: (screenshot of a "working" system of Xanadu) - a diference to the web, links are real lines between open windows, each window with a different document. == Douglas Engelbart (* 1925) 1962 Augmenting Human Intelect: (AHI?-ARC) Augment conceptual Framework Augment/NLS Inventor of the mouse (picture of one of the first mouse) (result of experiments in timming the user movement to places on the screen) Online at the time means live intreaction with a computer. (Picture with an experimental UI with two devices like mouses: one is a mouse with 4 or 5 buttons and another a button pad with common commands to speed up command commands) (personal comment: talk about going back in time. we are less productive now.. And people complain when a mouse has more than one button ;) == 1968: The Mother of all Demos Q: How long did it take to reboot NLS? A: (Video from a conversation with Johns F. (Jeff) Rulifson) Down for 1/24 of a second, a single frame of the demo showed the crashed computer! Amazing... It did very fast recoveries, it read the data, analyse it, and fixed it. (personal take: microsoft/linux/apple should hire/convince this guy to work for them :) == Alan kay (1940-) 1972 A paersonal computer for children odf all ages Learning Reaserch Group at Xerox PARC Dynabook Smalltalk picture of the dynabook (looks like a tablet with a sliding down keyboard: imagine a laptop open 180¼) (another film, impressions from the XEROX research Lap Group, the music kills us all! but the music was actually being played by the computer, and that might excuse the thing.) yeah, blame the machine! :) (picture of smalltalk editor, first shots of overlapping windows) (other picture: popmenus and scroll bars) (picture of bravo, predecessor of ms word, wysiwyg editor) (other picture of XEROX STAR, windows and icons, lots of usability engineering into this project) (picture of wysiwyg: copy on paper of what appears in the screen) == Nicholas negropont (1938-) spatial data management system? (the idea of using small pictures to represent data on a screen) == David canfield smith, F. Ludolph Apple Lisa: last unssucessfull desktop user computer Today Project looking glass (3D desktop) Lisa: First time we had a menu on top document oriented (there was no applications, just documents) Lisa failed not because of the user interface but because it was an increbibly slow computer as well as expensive. Lisa had an hardrive. So they distinguished between documents and files. So unsaved documents where kept on storage. Documents where kept in an unsaved state. = Jef raskin 1943-2005 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin) 1972-1982 Lead of Apple Mac Project Wrote The Humane interface (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201379376/qid=1118417479/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/104-9605790-1191122?v=glance&s=books&n=507846), a milestone book on interface design (and I highly recommend it -Michael Heilemann). == T Berner lee WWW. (picture of early program. the browser was also the editor, in a nice screenshot of X windows running with Afterstep window manager! ok? 2000? next? k No, its really nextstep. Yes, it *is* next step Lost concepts 1 document centric user interface - application and protocol independency a robust way to store find and identify documents 2 authoring hypertext wikis and blogs are just a shallows ... 3 consistent user interface desktop and web pose different styles of interaction 4 Persistency and spatiallity Desktop and Browser should store positions of objects 5 gestures and context there is much more than keyboard and mouse End slide refering to some of the speaker books. *** Keep white lines at the bottom.. it helps... *** Save often! :) *** If you want to see all the text without the track changes colors, use View > Hide Changes. It's non-destructive. *** Remember to export to HTML (on the file menu) before closing the application. It is worth it. Requires latest version (?) I have 2.1.1