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Human Computer Interaction History

1998 Apple experiments with a round shaped mouse. It's a failure. 2004 Mice are optic and wireless. Trackpads are in large use. Displaying 1934 first commercial television with a cathode ray tube is made. 1981 The IBM 5151 green phosphor monochrome screen costs about 400$. 1992 A Macintosh color display costs 589$. 2012 a 27 inch flat screen costs 999$.

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Human Computer Interaction History

1998 Apple experiments with a round shaped mouse. It's a failure. 2004 Mice are optic and wireless. Trackpads are in large use. Displaying 1934 first commercial television with a cathode ray tube is made. 1981 The IBM 5151 green phosphor monochrome screen costs about 400$. 1992 A Macintosh color display costs 589$. 2012 a 27 inch flat screen costs 999$.

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The History of

Pointing
1952
Invention of the trackball.

Human Computer Interaction


1986
Apple perfects the concept.

1998
Apple experiments with a round shaped mouse. It's a failure.

2004
Mice are optic and wireless. Trackpads are in large use.

1996 1968
Hewlett-Packard makes its rst mouse. IBM patents the nipple mouse under the name "TrackPoint".

2012

Displaying
1934
First commercial television with a cathode ray tube is made.

1981
The IBM 5151 green phosphor monochrome screen costs about 400$.

1992
A Macintosh color display costs 589$.

2012
A 27 inch at screen costs 999$.

Interfacing
1963
The SketchPad gives a promising start for a CAD software.

1970
The command line is still the predominent paradigm.

1973
The Xerox PARC produces the rst version of the Alto.

1979
This is what Xerox develops and shows Steve Jobs when he vists.

1987 1983
Susan Kare draws the dogcow. Apple publishes a rst version of its human interface guidelines.

1992

Save and Don't Save buttons become more common.

1995

Windows 95 sells a million copies in four days.

1984
Apple releases Mac OS version 1.1.

2002

The idea of tabbed le viewing widespreads in a matter of three years.

2000
Column view nally arrives for browsing les in Mac OS X DP (the feature was developed for NeXTSTEP).

2003
The idea of expos helps a bit but doesn't solve the problem that windows are confusing.

2011

GNOME reaches version 3

Typing
1870
The SWERTY layout is devised on the rst typewriters.

1984
IBM produces the famous Model M keyboard.

As times passes, keys have gotten really thin. But that's about it.

2012

1998
Jonathan Ive makes keyboard a bit more sexy.

2004
No one uses laser keyboards.

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