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The cognitive leap to associate moving a mouse or keyboard (in your hand) with stuff going down on a screen is significant compared to just touching something y
by alexholehouse 15y ago
The cognitive leap to associate moving a mouse or keyboard (in your hand) with stuff going down on a screen is significant compared to just touching something you see and it moves. The former represents how we typically interact with a computer, the later how we interact with everything else.
It's actually kind of amazing that Apple made both those interaction types - Apple 2 was THE FIRST time you had a keyboard + screen, and the iPhone/iPad are(perhaps more arguably) the most successful implementations of touch screen interaction.
- jodrellblank 15y agoApple 2 was THE FIRST time you had a keyboard + screen I raise you Douglas Englebart and a decade earlier.
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- alexholehouse 15y agoYeah sorry - I clearly should have said in terms of an affordable easy-to-use device for the masses (the same being true for the iPhone/iPad). Edit: Just went a found Engelbart's lecture at Stanford - it's incredible http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html
- georgemcbay 15y ago"Apple 2 was THE FIRST time you had a keyboard + screen" Are you shitting me? Edit: Makes more sense with the 'affordable' qualifier though it is still debatable as a "FIRST".
- alexholehouse 15y agoI'm actually quoting Steve Wozniak, but sorry, I should have made clear I meant for an affordable consumer device. Apologies. Edit: No doubt, to be totally honest it's not an area I really know too much about, I just have Steve shouting "THE FIRST" engraved in my memory from a few years ago...