Chapter 1: Historical context
Abstract
This chapter presents and discusses significant events leading the 1983 emergence of human-computer interaction (HCI) as a field of research and practice. The key events reviewed include publication of Vannevar Bush's essay “As We May Think” (1945), Ivan Sutherland's interactive graphics system Sketchpad (1962), Doug Engelbart's invention of the computer mouse (1963), the release of the Xerox Star (1981), the formation of the ACM's special interest group on computer-human interaction (SIGCHI, 1983), publication of Card, Moran, and Newell's The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction (1983), and the release of the Apple Macintosh (1984). The 1967 comparative evaluation involving a computer mouse by Engelbart ...
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