HCI

Human Computer Interaction has come a long way according to this article A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology from basic interactions for example when manipulating with a pointing device like the Sketchpad. "Sketchpad supported the manipulation of objects using a light-pen, including grabbing objects, moving them, changing size and using contraints. It contained the seeds of myriad important interface ideas." Another pointing device is the mouse which was developed at Stanford Research Laboratory in 1965, the mouse was made famous as a practical input device by Xerox PARC in the 70's. The Application Types that are in this article are the Drawing programs, Text Editing, Spreadsheets, HyperText, Computer Aided Design and Video Games. Brad A. Myers also explains in his article about the "Up-and Coming Areas" in which I wasn't aware that they had already begun to take place as early as 1966 like the 3-D and the Gesture Recognition, Multi-Media, and many more. Human Computer Interaction is going to keep growing as time goes by and little do we know if our lives will some day be like the movie I,ROBOT?