12-31 · The now prevalent conceptions for the next-generation HCI, whether the wearable device or the most radical brain-machine interface, are certainly the offshoots of the McLuhanian quote that “the medium is the extensions of human body [sic]”. In fact t...

12-31 · The ultimate fantasy of the screen is what we now name as virtual reality. What’s been gradually forgotten during its expansion is not only the increasingly softened screen edge but also the practice of mouse flicking. You may find it hard to locate...

12-31 · The touch screen appeared originally with a Home button, but that was increasingly regarded as an eyesore afterwards. It’s always reminding us that still something exists out there, something the screen cannot totally absorb. And that’s what the scre...

12-31 · The evolution from the punch card, through the command line and the computer mouse, to the touch screen, is indeed the gradual expansion of the screen from the 0-D, through 1-D and 2-D, to 3-D world[3]. It’s also the gradual erosion of the distin...

12-31 · The computer mouse has therefore enabled a new freedom. However, it still follows some trajectory, whether moving straightly or crookedly. Would it be possible if the cursor could just “blink” elsewhere? That’s actually what the touch screen is,...

12-31 · So if you have typed for quite a while and find an error above, then to correct it you definitely have to position the cursor where you’ve got it wrong. You need to push Backspace. Unfortunately you have to keep pressing it if the error is far aw...

12-31 · So the DOS command line input was thus born. Keyboard input in fact. You know, the codes programmers write and the Matrix-style green characters rain on the black screen are just examples of this. It naturally saved us much trouble. You don’t hav...

12-31 · The earliest way humans communicate with electronic machines was through punch cards. There are only two states: punched and un-punched. And there’re probes in the machine. Slot one punch card into the machine, and they’ll pass through the holes...

12-31 · Sure machines are also human-invented tools, but their biggest difference from previous tools is that they are what humans must always consider how to communicate with. The most distinctive feature of machines is automaticity: cogwheels engage wi...

12-31 · A History of Touch / Interface # 1: What Does the Future Computer Mouse Look Like?
An English translation of the video transcript of “触觉/interface 史（一）未来的鼠标长什么样” by An Excellent and Most Improved Youth In Gotham (哥谭市优秀进步青年). The Chinese leftis...