So where did we start? Lost in the mists of time are the days of highly complex and non-intuitive interfaces such as punch-cards.
By the earliest days of the personal computer in the 1970s, the basic input and output devices were a pair of already-familiar repurposed devices: the typewriter and the television. With the addition of either a mouse (developed in the 70s at Xerox-PARC) or the touchpad, these are probably the same basic interfaces you are using now.
The scenic route (or were they wrong turns?).
A number of not-ready-for-primetime technologies have attempted to challenge the keyboard-monitor-mouse triumvirate over the years. Some versions of commercial handwriting recognition and voice recognition have been around for more than a decade. Both are coming closer and closer to becoming everyday interfaces (see the iPhone's Siri and iOS feature - click here). Others have had only very niche applications -- such as eyeball tracking devices that allow quadriplegics to operate a computer.
Please enter your destination. Or, where are we going? So, what is the future of the human interface? The purpose of this blog is to discuss developments, trends, and potential new applications of human interface technology. The question isn't when will I get my jet pack and my flying car. It is when I will get to view the world like the Terminator
By the earliest days of the personal computer in the 1970s, the basic input and output devices were a pair of already-familiar repurposed devices: the typewriter and the television. With the addition of either a mouse (developed in the 70s at Xerox-PARC) or the touchpad, these are probably the same basic interfaces you are using now.
The scenic route (or were they wrong turns?).
A number of not-ready-for-primetime technologies have attempted to challenge the keyboard-monitor-mouse triumvirate over the years. Some versions of commercial handwriting recognition and voice recognition have been around for more than a decade. Both are coming closer and closer to becoming everyday interfaces (see the iPhone's Siri and iOS feature - click here). Others have had only very niche applications -- such as eyeball tracking devices that allow quadriplegics to operate a computer.
Please enter your destination. Or, where are we going? So, what is the future of the human interface? The purpose of this blog is to discuss developments, trends, and potential new applications of human interface technology. The question isn't when will I get my jet pack and my flying car. It is when I will get to view the world like the Terminator
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