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At 15:00, he mentions research on the efficiency of gestures done in the 60's. Does anyone know what he's referring to?
by forgotprevpass 12y ago
At 15:00, he mentions research on the efficiency of gestures done in the 60's. Does anyone know what he's referring to?
- ozten 12y agoSketchpad by Ivan Sutherland in 1963, would be one. It allows one to draw CAD drawings, convert drawn letters into labels, etc in a more natural way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad
- jecel 12y agoBesides the Sketchpad, Alan always mentions Grail (GRAphic Input Language), designed by Thomas Ellis and programmed by Gabriel Groner and others at the Rand Corporation. That was from 1964. As far as I know, Alan also greatly admires the work done at MIT in the 1970s like http://www.paulmckevitt.com/cre333/papers/putthatthere.pdf http://www.paulmckevitt.com/cre333/papers/putthatthere.pdf