This archive of Swansea University Library contains equipment, software, archives, ephemera, oral histories, and videos.
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Brian Shackel, (1959). Ergonomics for a computer. Design, 120, 36-39. full paper<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Man\u2013Machine Interface (sic<\/em>) theme of the Alvey programme was critical in the development of HCI in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Department of Trade and Industry: The Alvey Programme for Advanced Information Technology<\/em>. The National Audit Office. 1988. full report<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Brian Oakley and Kenneth Owen, Alvey: Britain’s Strategic Computing Initiative<\/em>, MIT Press, 1990. ISBN: 0-262-15038-7<\/p>\n\n\n\n IT Archives report: 75 Years of Human-Computer Interaction and its Impact on Society<\/em> by Elisabetta Mori. see report<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n HCI Bibliography : History<\/em> \u2013 collection of web sites and documents about the history of HCI. see collection<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jonathan Grudin. A History of Human Computer Interaction<\/em>. Interactions \u2013 Blogs. March 24, 2017. see blog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jonathan Grudin. From Tool to Partner: The Evolution of Human-Computer Interaction<\/em>. Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics. January 2017. DOI: 10.2200\/S00745ED1V01Y201612HCI035<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ben Shneiderman. Encounters with HCI Pioneers: A Personal History and Photo Journal.<\/em> Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics. February 2019. DOI: 10.2200\/S00889ED1V01Y201812HCI041<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n John Carroll. Human Computer Interaction – brief intro<\/em>. The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed.. full article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rachel Benedyk talks to Dominic Furness. The origins and survival of Ergonomics at HCI: a personal view.<\/em> Interfaces, 82:8\u201313, 2010. full article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Myers, Brad. (1998). A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology<\/em>. Interactions. 5. 44\u201354. full article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n John Knight, Tom McEwan, Alan Dix (2019). Digital Design \u2013 Secret Histories and Hidden Practices<\/em>, Academy for Design Innovation Management Conference 2019 (ADIM 2019<\/em>), 18-21 July 2019, London. abstract and links<\/a> | ADIM conference site<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n A. Dix. (2016). Human Computer Interaction, foundations and new paradigms<\/em>. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, special issue in Honour of Stefano Levialdi, 42:122-134. Ronald Baecker (2008). Themes in the early history of HCI — some unanswered questions<\/em>. In Interactions, 15 (2) pp. 22-27. DOI: 10.1145\/1340961.1340968<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Brief History of the Latin American HCI Community.<\/a> Sane Gaytan SIGCHI Medium Channel. 12 July 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A brief history of human-centred design<\/a> \u2013 visual overview focused on participatory design, design thinking, service design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n David Parisi (2018). Archaeologies of Touch \u2013 Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing<\/em>. University of Minnesota Press. more info<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Matthias Rauterberg (2002). History of HCI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Geraldine Fitzpatrick (2018). A Short History of Human Computer Interaction: A People-Centred Perspective<\/em>. Keynote at ACM SIGUCCS’18. DOI: 10.1145\/3235715.3242569<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Elizabeth R. Petrick (2020). A Historiography of Human\u2013Computer Interaction<\/em>. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 42(4): 8 – 23. DOI: <\/strong>10.1109\/MAHC.2020.3009080<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jonathan Grudin (2009). Brian Shackel\u2019s contribution to the written history of Human\u2013Computer Interaction. Interacting with Computers, 21(5\u20136):370-374, DOI: 10.1016\/j.intcom.2009.03.005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor John Long (1935-2025) \u2013 tribute and brief biography<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n IFIP WG9.7 on History of Computing<\/a>. International group organises events and other activities to “preserve the records and artifacts of information processing inventions, practices, and activities throughout the world<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n Computers and Computer People, 1950s-1990s<\/a>. Royal Society workshop, March 2021 that brought together experts in computing and the history of computing for a wide-ranging series of talks on the IT industry in the UK, 1950-2000 including the Manchester Baby, LEO, transputers and the history of IBM software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n History of Computing \u2013 IFIP Working Group 9.7<\/a>. “We study the history of computing and informatics with a view to providing the impetus to preserve the records and artifacts of information processing inventions, practices, and activities throughout the world …”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The early days of home computing \u2013 in pictures<\/a>. Kadish Morris, The Guardian, 11 Apr 2020. \u2013 Pictorial review of Alex Wiltshire and John Short (2020). Home Computers: 100 Icons that Defined a Digital Generation<\/a>. Thames & Hudson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Breakthrough of Digital Culture<\/a>: Finland accepts the Demoscene on its national UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity. Art of Coding Team. 15. April 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Computer Sheds<\/a> hold the Jim Austin Computer Collection, over 1500 computers and many thousands of other artifacts such as books, calculators, spares, test equipment as well as a fine collection of Radios and Valves (the RadioShed)<\/p>\n\n\n\n A History of Women in British Telecommunications<\/a>. Special Issue of the journal Information & Culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n History-Computer.com\/<\/a> Timeline, brief biographies, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HistoryofInformation.com<\/a> by Jeremy Norman, Exploring the History of Information and Media through Timelines<\/p>\n\n\n\n Computing the Human Experience<\/a> a transmedia documentary by Grady Booch<\/p>\n\n\n\n Abstractions and Embodiments \u2013 New Histories of Computing and Society<\/a>. Edited by Janet Abbate and Stephanie Dick. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unseen images of code breaking computer that helped win WW2<\/a>. BBC News article (18 Jan 2024) about GCHQ’s release of photos and other artefacts relating to Colossus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lyons and the Emergence of Business Computing<\/a>. BCS Wales Branch seminar by Elisabetta Mori.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Computers are for Girls<\/a> \u2013 A deep dive into early home computer ads by { datagubbe }. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The first PC virus<\/a>. BBC World Service: Witness History.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HI Club User Modelling SIG Workshop on Models of Users HCI: Making Software Usable. NDISD 1993 (New Directions in Software Development) Wolverhampton 1993. abstracts of talks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Health and Human Services Dept. (U. S. ) (2007). Research-based web design and visibility guidelines<\/em>. United States Govt Printing Office. Guidelines Book<\/a> Ivan Edward Sutherland (1963). Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system<\/a>. PhD Thesis. MIT, January 1963. (Reproduced as Cambridge Computing Laboratory Technical Report, UCAM-CL-TR-574)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Twitter thread below about the origins of HJKL cursor movement keys in vi\/vim. Wordstar used ESDX and close keys for up, left, right, down using natural layout: https:\/\/twitter.com\/jschauma\/status\/1434265985138270210<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Glenn E. Krasner and Stephen T. Pope (1988). A cookbook for using the model-view controller user interface paradigm in Smalltalk-80<\/a>. J. Object Oriented Program. 1, 3 (Aug.\/Sept. 1988), 26\u201349.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAlvey Programme<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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DOI : 10.1016\/j.jvlc.2016.04.001<\/a> | abstract and draft paper<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nBroader computing history<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Early Documents<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
in System Design, Cosner’s House, 6th and 7th June 1988. Draft Report<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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