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AM+A.SciFi+HCI.eBook.17Aug12 - Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc.

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<strong>Aaron</strong> <strong>Marcus</strong>, The Past 100 Years of the Future, Page 58<br />

Star Trek, Television Series, 1966-69<br />

In marked contrast with many somewhat conservative HCI-content in movies of the<br />

1960s <strong>and</strong> 70s, the StarTrek, TV series 1966-69, <strong>and</strong> film series, from 1979-
 , Creator,<br />

Gene Roddenberry, showed many creative innovations in HCI devices <strong>and</strong> techniques<br />

supposedly of about the year 2366, from medical diagnostic tools with their intriguing,<br />

cryptic displays, to the ever-present voice communicators, which were so well<br />

established as a theme that they were respectfully copied <strong>and</strong> used in Galaxy Quest, the<br />

comedy that pays homage to TV science-fiction series. Another aspect of the series was<br />

the cross-cultural, cross-gender, <strong>and</strong> cross-species make-up of its crew, which<br />

suggested that much user-centered design might have been done to accommodate<br />

many different kinds of personas <strong>and</strong> use scenarios…of course, I might be reading into<br />

this a bit.<br />

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