[HN Gopher] Classic HCI Demos
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Classic HCI Demos
Author : zdw
Score : 41 points
Date : 2022-11-09 05:31 UTC (1 days ago)
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| lwn wrote:
| What does HCI stand for? Human Computer Interaction?
| 0x445442 wrote:
| Or Human Computer Interface
| [deleted]
| layer8 wrote:
| Correct.
| anderspitman wrote:
| I think there's so much innovation ahead with HCI. We've pushed
| the boundaries of what can be done with touchscreens, and I'm
| excited to see a pragmatic reincorporation of physical buttons,
| wheels, sliders, etc.
|
| Touchscreens are great for developers but often terrible for
| users.
| pvg wrote:
| Touchscreens are terrible for users when they replace familiar
| and well-established physical controls. Touchscreens have made
| computer interfaces far more accessible, though - lots of
| people you see on, say, public transit flicking expertly
| through their phone never got nearly as handy with a mouse or
| trackpad. Toddlers use touch screens while decades of command
| line availability saw virtually no CLI adoption in that user
| segment.
| 0x445442 wrote:
| To me CLI is just a version of natural language processing. I
| think NLP will continue to gain ground. Alexa is already
| mainstream and I think a fair bit of the population does
| hands free dictation on messaging apps.
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| I'm really interested in NLP/messaging apps as a platform for
| "applications". I saw a video a couple of weeks ago showing
| Musk questioning why Twitter wasn't WeChat yet. I think he's
| on the right track here because I think people are overloaded
| with the schizophrenia of the web's UI. It varies so much
| from site to site and app to app. I think people would take
| nicely to a consolidation of some of their most used tasks
| into a single UI paradigm.
| pvg wrote:
| I think we're going to see lots more NLP applications in
| HCI but it feels more than a bit of a stretch to say CLIs
| are 'just a version' of NLP. The distinction between formal
| and natural language is a big deal and at the core of the
| growing importance of NLP (it kinda works now whereas
| before it kinda didn't).
| [deleted]
| an1sotropy wrote:
| These are awesome and criminally under-viewed (on youtube). Here
| is one:
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLcfMEQjMqM
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| currently with a single-digit number of likes, that uses two
| people at a table, with a marker, and some pieces of foam-core?
| with clauses printed out, showing how unification works in
| Prolog. Nice.
|
| The care, time, and effort that went into making this, when
| production tools were different than those available today, is
| really something to appreciate.
| ratg13 wrote:
| FYI, in the technology world of 2022, HCI tends to mean
| Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
| azhenley wrote:
| If you are new to HCI, I recently wrote a blog post about
| applying HCI methods to your work. I also list some further
| reading at the end.
|
| My HCI toolbox: Methods for designing and evaluating UIs
| https://austinhenley.com/blog/myhcitoolbox.html
| InvaderFizz wrote:
| Some fascinating things.
|
| The first one I happened to look at has the only hypercard entry.
| Someone made, in 1991, a user pattern recognition engine to
| automatically recognize and automate repetitive tasks in the
| GUI[0,1].
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| 0: http://acypher.com/Publications/CHI91/EagerCHI.html
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| 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ZL4BXOfbk
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