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Aaron Marcus, The Past 100 Years of the Future, Page 155 Figure: Scene from Augmented Cognition, 2005. This crude, poorly readable text display, somewhat similar to the earliest silent-movie dialogues and scene-setting title screens (but probably not intended to make that cinema-history reference) shows the lack of typographic sensibility that is evident throughout the video. (Acknowledgement: TBD.) 155
Aaron Marcus, The Past 100 Years of the Future, Page 156 HCI in Sci-FI of Other Countries and Cultures Lest this survey of HCI in sci-fi cinema appear to be overly biased towards Hollywood, North America, and Europe, I call attention to some of the extensive sci-fi films of India and China, which are numerous, but not well known to European and North-American viewers. Sci-fi film-makers in these countries have been inspired by some of the classic Western novels as well as their own literature traditions. They have produced films that reflect their unique cultural heritages, much as Bollywood films combine traditional storytelling with music and dance quite unlike most of the products of Hollywood. The study of Indian and Chinese approaches to metaphors, mental models, navigation, interaction, and appearance, where it is not a derivative copy of Western approaches but more revealing creations based on different cultures, will, I believe, be worth much further study. Additional studies may reveal cross-cultural influencs of one genre upon the other, e.g., the Hollywood influence on Indian sci-fi, or the Hong Kong action-films influence on Hollywood sci-fi. With the rise of multiple film production centers, including a new animation center being started in Shanghai under the auspices of Robin King, a Master of the De Tao Masters Academy of Beijing [King], it is possible that the influences may run in multiple directions in the decades ahead. Already, India has shown a desire to produce comic books featuring Hindu deities as super-heros and heroines instead of the classic Western Superman and other characters. Unfortunately, it has not been easy for me to locate appropriate scenes from these films that show HCI interaction and appearance. At the very least I cite some of them and urge readers to investigate further. The primary resource for these lists comes from Wikipedia entries (with apologies to academia). Indian Sci-FI Films Indian sci-fi films since 1952 include the following. I provide brief comments on some to help the reader appreciate the accomplishments of the film. Note that in India, many of the films are produced in a variety of languages. India itself has about 22 national languages, which means production houses must translate films and/or provide subtitles in many languages even for its domestic market. Action Replayy (sic, formerly Action Replay), Hindi, 2010. This Indian sci-fi romantic comedy film was based on the 1985 Hollywood blockbuster Back to the Future. Aditya 369, Tulugu. Bharathan, Malayam. Dasavathaaram, Tamil. The third-highest-grossing Indian film. The story features a USA virus that threatens Earth. Enthiran, Tamil, 2010. A scientist makes a robot, lives with it, and adds emotions. Alas, 156
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