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Aaron Marcus, The Past 100 Years of the Future, Page 15 Figure: The SIGCHI 1999 opening plenary panel “Sci-Fi at CHI” chaired by Aaron Marcus. The panel at the conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, featured invited noted sciencefiction authors, including Bruce Sterling and Verner Vinge, to present their views of future HCI. The panel was a repeat of an earlier, similar panel at SIGCHI 1992. (Acknowledgement: Photographer unknown, using the authorʼs camera provided by the author.) 15
Aaron Marcus, The Past 100 Years of the Future, Page 16 A typical taxonomy of HCI components that might be featured in sci-fi literature and media might include focus on the following: Hardware Software User community Subject-matter content Metaphors Mental models Navigation Interaction Appearance In future studies of the relation of sci-fi to HCI, students may cross-tabulate that list with a typical taxonomy of the science-fiction literature, which might inclue the following: Genre Story narrative Technology Society Temporal view Culture Hardware Software Medium Cross-combining these terms provides a rich basis for future analysis of computerhuman interaction in science-fiction literature. The complexity should provide ample challenges to many future PhDs of literature, media, and the HCI community. What is particularly interesting is focusing on the visual works of science-fiction cinema (and videos), because the world of cinema generally requires the filling out of a scene with the appropriate and necessary props to complete a compelling picture of the future, assuming we are not considering some abstract, symbolic cinema in which such iconic, pictographic, and photographic detail might not be required. Written literature can focus more easily on inner thoughts as well as some physical details; movies show motion. Movies must show “all” of the backgound, or we immediately sense a disjoint or incomplete, uncompelling scene. These media depict motion of people and things against a backgound. In sci-fi media, action is primary, followed by the story, and people/personalities, at least as a general rule. Sci-fi movie makers, from the beginning, were compelled by the medium to show HCI, because these visual media required people to “fill out” a scene with approriate props to complete a compelling picture of the future. Sci-fi movie- and video-makers were, in effect, rapid prototypers from the start, among the first user-centered, userexperience designers of HCI. One other difference between written literature and these visual media: sci-fi authors would have to create names for new technologies, products, 16
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