8/23/2023 0 Comments Sketchpad demo microsoft![]() ACM Conference on the History of Personal Workstations.Ĭomputing began as an idea: Charles Babbage, a mathematician, philosopher, and inventor in London in the early 19th century, began imagining a kind of mechanical machine that could automatically calculate mathematical formulas. User technology: From pointing to pondering. Files, keyboards, mice, and touchscreens-all of these concepts were invented to solve very real challenges with interacting with computers, and but for a few important people and places in the 20th century, we might have invented entirely different ways of interacting with computers 2 2 And yet, for a medium that is invented entirely from imagination, the history of user interfaces is reminder that the interactive world we experience today could have been different. ![]() ![]() In a rapidly evolving field of augmented reality, driverless cars, and rich social media, is there any more mundane way to start a book on user interfaces than history? Probably not.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |