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Aaron Marcus, The Past 100 Years of the Future, Page 3 Authorʼs photo: Figures: Aaron Marcus in a serious and funny mood. 3
Aaron Marcus, The Past 100 Years of the Future, Page 4 Abstract During the past hundred years, science-fiction (sci-fi) films and, later, videos, have, of necessity, had to depict detailed views of human-computer interaction (HCI) of the future, or alternate pasts/presents, in order to convey a compelling scene and, sometimes, in order move forward the plot. This publication explores some of the themes that emerge from examining this body of work. The l is simple: HCI professionals can learn something from sci-fi media, and sci-fi media-producers can learn more from HCI professionals in order to show smarter views of the future. Article Text: Sci-Fi and HCI:  Past, Present, and Future “Greeting HCI/CHIons of the Planet Earth. I bring you a message of great import. May the Schwartz be with you in your quest for knowledge of excellent user experiences….” So might the opening of the Academy Awards of 2014 for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in movies and videos begin…but such is not the case...In the meantime, please join with me in this romp through time, space, fiction, and reality. Movies and video programs of traditional broadcast media over the past hundered years have made extensive use of computer-human interaction in telling science-fiction stories that envision the future or alternate worlds of the past or present. In the following publication, I present a personal and roughly chronological essay. This survey provides examples of HCI included within movies and videos that I presented in my keynote address at the Mensch und Komputer Conference 2011 in Chemnitz, Germany. I am indebted to Prof. Dr. Maximilian Eibl and to Dr. Arne Berger for their invitation to present the results of my study (see the online video cited in the Bibliography). I provide an early warning: This text is not an academic treatise, but more like a travelogue of past futures. Besides informing and entertaining you, I hope it will inspire PhD students worldwide and others to explore further the topics mentioned. My comments are a compendium of insights gained from viewing many of these works with an eye trained for decades to notice the details that inspire, frustrate, and inform us as user-experience (UX) and user-interface (UI) or human-computer interaction (HCI) design professionals. How old is science-fiction story-telling? Depending on how you define this genre, one can go back to visions of the future that date at least from the time of Roger Bacon, noted philosopher and scholar, who in 1260 CE/AD commented that someday… “Machines may be made by which the largest ships, with only one man steering them, will be moved faster than if they were filled with rowers; wagons may be built which will move with incredible speed and without the aid of beasts; flying machines can be constructed in which a man…may beat the air with wings like a bird…machines will make it possible to go to the bottom of seas and rivers.”  [De secretis operibus, c. 4. ed. Cit. 533; cf. L. Thorndike, History of Magic and Expermental Science, ii (1929), 654-5; F. Boll, “Technische Träume des Mittelalters”, Die Umschau, xxi (1917, 678-80, all cited in White, Lynn, Jr. (1962). Medieval Technology and Social Change. London: Oxford, p. 4
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