Links To HCI Videos

Historic

• original video of Durell Bishop's Marble Answering Machine.

The Dark Side

• Sight - the dark side of augmented reality

Sustainability

• Microsoft vision touches upon sustainability

Inspirational

• Randy Pausch's last lecture, a truly great lecture to inspire us to be as much as we can.
• Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson, given at TED.
• Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage + video)

Prototyping Methods and Examples

• Chrome Experiments
• iPhone Copy and Paste - a mockup of what it might look like to Copy and Paste on iPhone, using the magnifying loupe and a second-finger tap.

Gadget design and hacks

• PCubee (Sid Fels and students) and this is where the LCD supplier is
• Using the Wiimote as a wireless multitouch input to television
• Siftables

Information Visualization Examples

• design classics, the london underground map describes the design of this classic. A full television show.
• Periodic table of Visual Literacy
• Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait. This series by Chris Jordan looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something, e.g., fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use) . While not HCI, its an awesome info vis example.
• Time Maps shows multiple points of time from the same scene, in a single image, by Michael Terry.
• Data Visualziation collects various visualization methods
• How the world really shapes up. A new series of extraordinary maps shows our planet in a very different light.
• Collects some amazing visualizations. Beautiful.
• Nikon Size Comparision in the spirit of Scales of 10
• Visualization of flight traffic patterns

The Web

• web2.0 in 5 minutes - movie. Michael Wesch, Kansas State University.
• An anthropological introduction to YouTube presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008.

Light

• Video demonstrations on lightness illusions by Talusan and Chen

Obsolescense

• The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard, talks about how production moves from a cycle of extraction to production, distributiong, consumption and disposal.

Tabletops / Vertical displays

• Microsoft surface 2
• Stevie B Microsoft Research demo
• Garth's video shadows work and his paper
• Microsoft Project Natal
• Extending Touch: Towards Interaction with Large-Scale Surfaces. They created a life 3D Model of people in front of a huge display using 4 simple web cameras.
  • pointing interaction with the screen
  • the 3D Tracking technique
• Hideki Koike Assorted Videos
• Movie showing future gaming
• demonstrates a concept for multi-touch and window management on a desktop machine
• Surface and Tangible Blocks
• Active Desk History by Bill Buxton
• Electrostatic sensing of hand positions
• Rectable roleplaying game
• Second Light
• iLab CBC Video
• Smart Table
• Mouse Mischief
• MIT Digital Drawing Board
• Jeff Han is a research scientist for New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Here, he demonstrates—for the first time publicly—his intuitive, "interface-free," touch-driven computer screen, which can be manipulated intuitively with the fingertips, and responds to varying levels of pressure. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 09:32)
• ReacTable is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Developed by Sergi Jordà, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Günter Geiger and Marcos Alonso at the Music Technology Group within the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. See http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable
• Microsoft Surface Computing
  • Interview 1
  • Interview 2 (Business)
  • Parody
  • Firefly Game
• Interacting with Large Displays using Tabletop Devices fro UBC, Tony Tang. Shows TeleporterPad and the LazySusan techniques of linking tabletop displays and large vertical displays.
• $2. Multitouch. A simple multitouch pad made from a plastic bag, some dyed water, and a camera
• Yet another Tabletop demo
• MIT Gestures over walls - influences with minority report
  • video 1
  • video 2
• MagicBoard by Tony Tang
• Wiimote Hack is Wireless Multitouch TV See also his Web page and software adn Wimote VR
• The Fraunhofer multitouch table first and second
• Flux convertable multitouch table

Alternative Interfaces to the Desktop

• Anand Agarawala: BumpTop desktop. Anand was an undergrad at Calgary, and went on to develop some creative work for his MSc at U Toronto.

Alternate displays

• mms://station.streaming-tv.net/sonypr/OLED070524_750kbps.wmv - Flexible small displays

iPhone

• Steve Jobs Keynote on the IPhone. The 2nd video is about 1 hr 30 minutes long.
• iPHONE spoof showing the problem with the swiss army knife approach to design

Satirical Videos

• Medieval Help Desk spoofs books as a new technology in the middle age. English subtitles. From the show "Øystein og jeg" on Norwegian Broadcasting, 2001. Øystein Backe (helper)& Rune Gokstad (desperate monk). Written by Knut Nærum
• Internet Help Desk comedy spoofing treatment of people by a help desk person.
• MS Paint comedy spoofing the poor functionality of MS Paint.
• Its A Wonderful Internet is an interactive book that shows the dark side of the internet.
• Bad technology for an excersie machine - Advert
• Apple. vs. Mac guy - Adverts comparing PC and Mac.
• Family Guy and Computers - clip from Family Guy cartoon
• French $ Saunders - Computer Troubles
• Gmail - Behind the Scends
• Animator vs. Animation Not really HCI, but its so cool I had to include it somewhere.
• The sequel
• Alien Abduction with an HCI twist (Pixar)

Text Entry

• Dasher information theoretic rapid text entry system. See http://www.dasher.org.uk/

Human Robot Interaction

• Virtual Visiting Robot, also father reads a book to his children through the robot
• Dexterious robot showing amazing grasping

Finding / Viewing Information

• Information R/evolution explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively.
• Fisheye image viewer Actually a demo, not a video

Human Robot Interaction.

• Aibo interaction using a keyboard vs. a Wii controller

The Dark Side

• The dark side of Wizard of Oz

Distributed Groupware

• Orbit EDCS Video, 1996 and Orbit breaks down the boundaries, 2007
• Chat Roulette

Others

• Touchable Holography