4/25 Summary

History of as tools : people

• Vannevar Bush : memex , J.C.R Lincklider : computer networking, agents , Ted nelson : hypertexp and Alan Kay : object-oriented proframming, laptops etc..

History of HCI as tools : systems

• Memex(1945), Apple lisa(1983), WWW(~1994) etc..

History of HCI as tools : funding

• Military : Navy,Air Force, ARPA, DARPA / Universities : MIT, Stanford, CMU, UC/Government : National Science Foundation(1950~now)

Where does HCI meet AI?

• basic design question: should the computer act like a person?

-agents cersus "direct manipulation"

• even "direct-manipulation" interfaces are based on a "conversation" metaphor: the computer responds immediately to each action or command from the "user".

What problem does weizenvaum's ELIZ system address or solve?

• The artificial intelligence answer: it does (or does not) behave like a human and is therefore successful(or not successful)
• The ethnomethodology answer: it is taken to be a like a person in a conversation and thys simply works like most other technologies in a social situation.

Johnstone's "algorithm"

• I Say to an actress, 'Make up a story.' She say "I can't make story". I've thought of one ; 'Yes' to any question that ends in a vowel, 'No' to any question that ends in a consonant, and 'Maybe' to any question that ends with the letter 'Y'. She free 'creative' or 'sensitive'. Story made by me(her), She think that companion made story.

Ethnomethodology

• Ethnomethodology simply means the study of the ways in which people make sense of their social world. Human compose social phenomenon by subjectivity and they are stabilized by oneself.