Human Folly about “HCI”

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• Smith DC 1975 Pygmalion (worrydream.com):

  198-page (!) #PDF scanned #paper on "Pygmalion", “A Creative Programming Environment”, David Canfield Smith’s 01975 #programming-by-demonstration environment written in Smalltalk-72. Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Memo AIM-260, Stanford Computer Science Department Report No. STAN-CS-75-499, from June 01975. This is the historical origin of “icons” in GUIs. Includes the Smalltalk code in a 20-page appendix. #UX #HCI #history

  on 02025-10-11
• Wizard of Oz experiment (en.wikipedia.org):

  #HCI #UX technique where a person pretends to be a computer.

  on 02025-07-20
• (youtube.com):

  #video #toread by #Haijun-Xia about how #HCI can integrate properly with #AI only if GUIs are totally redesigned to not be human-powered

  on 02025-03-16
• 1Euro (gery.casiez.net):

  the 1€ filter “to minimize jitter and lag when tracking human motion”: “1€ Filter: A Simple Speed-based Low-pass Filter for Noisy Input in Interactive Systems.” in #HCI

  on 02024-11-20
• Abriefrantonthefutureofinteractiondesign (worrydream.com):

  Bret Victor on #HCI, deprecating "pictures under glass"

  on 02020-11-12