Chapter 1

Question 1

HCI

Answer 1

the
scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among humans and
other elements of a system.

Question 2

sketchpad

Answer 2

the first direct manipulation interface, features included visibility of
objects, incremental action, rapid feedback, reversibility, exploration, syntactic correctness of
all actions, and replacing language with action

Question 3

NLS system

Answer 3

the first working hypertext system

oN-Line System, also the first system with mouse based input

invented by Doug Engelbart in 1963

Question 4

first HCI user study

Answer 4

the mouse in 1967

Multiple devices were tested, such as the light pen, mouse, joystick and knee-controlled
lever. It contained what is expected today in a user study destined for presentation at a
conference and publication in a conference proceedings

Question 5

first appearance of mouse outside of lab

Answer 5

1981, with the Xerox Star

Question 6

Alto

Answer 6

developed in 1973, included GUI and mouse, never released commercially

Question 7

what you see is what you get style interaction

Answer 7

WYSISYG, interact in the text directly, such as google docs

Question 8

desktop metaphor

Answer 8

Everything on your computer is a metaphor. Your ‘files’, ‘documents’, etc. When a metaphor
is present, the user has a jump-start on knowing what to do. The user exploits existing
knowledge from another domain

Question 9

event driven programming

Answer 9

puts the user in charge, change fonts for example

Xerox Star was the first to apply this

Question 10

first ACM SIGCHI conference

Answer 10

1983

Question 11

launch of apple macintosh

Answer 11

1984, with one button mouse

used direct manipulation and point-select interaction