Sunday, January 5, 2014

Foundations of Human-Computer Interaction - Module 7 - History and Vision

I tried very hard not to use a timeline structure... and failed. I guess I'm hardwired to think of History as linear. One of those things David calls my tendency of being too aseptic, I guess.
It was very cool to revisit this timeline in my head, as I've written extensively about the oN-Line System (NLS) and Doug Engelbart's unsung parenthood of so many things we now take for granted in Human-Computer Interaction: the pointer, the collaborative document, tele-conferencing, hypertext etc.
So here it is, in a timeline-ish shape, the final Concept Map before integration:

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