Transcript Lecture 6: Guest Lecture: David Canfield Smith (by Skype) Brad Myers 05-899A/05-499A: Interaction Techniques Spring, 2014 © 2014 - Brad Myers.

Lecture 6:
Guest Lecture:
David Canfield Smith
(by Skype)
Brad Myers
05-899A/05-499A: Interaction Techniques
Spring, 2014
© 2014 - Brad Myers
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David Canfield Smith coined the term "icons" in his landmark
1975 PhD thesis "Pygmalion: A Computer Program to Model and
Stimulate Creative Thought". He was a leader of the user
interface design team for the Xerox Star, which innovated many
important interaction techniques which are still used today, and
others which are arguably more effective than what we currently
use. David was also leader in the area of Programming by
Example. The picture at right shows David giving a
demonstration to Brad at CHI'1995 of the KidSim system which
eventually became Stagecast Creator. (Picture credit: Ben
Shneiderman)
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Pygmalion
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David’s thesis:
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http://books.google.com/books/about/Pygmalion.html?id=32MoA
QAAIAAJ
A book chapter about it that is free and online:
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http://acypher.com/wwid/Chapters/01Pygmalion.html
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Star Keyboard
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Star Icons
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Designed by artists and user-tested in multiple
rounds – Bewley paper, Salha chapter
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