🧵1997's best HCI demos...
The Amulet User Interface Development Environment. Brad Myers and team still trying to make GUI programming easier using prototype-based OO, constraints, gestures, &c. 1997.
/cc @evanlh
Brad Myers also wrote, around this time, an absolute banger on the history of HCI research. These picture-quoted bits from the intro of that paper are only more relevant today.
/cc @Ben_Reinhardt @sarahcat21
cs.cmu.edu/~amulet/papers…
A GUI Paradigm Using Tablets, Two-hands and Transparency. Another ToolGlass-style system from a different team, focused on artwork (uses two mice, or a mouse and a pen tablet). I like this input paradigm so much! 1997.
/cc @unkai
Distributed Applets. Further adventures building distributed applications with the Obliq programming language. 1997.
WebCard = Email + News + WWW. Treats email messages, web pages, and USENET news articles the same way, with a single interface for bookmarks, &c. An early gesture in the direction of @alexobenauer’s “Itemized OS”. 1997.
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.