1. BodyCode
http://slowcode.makerlab.org
• @anselm @makerlab @paigesaez
• @ardevcamp @gaffta
• Dec 4th 2010

2. • In the 1930’s Vannever Bush introduced the
idea of the Memex

3. • In 1968 Doug Engelbart and folks from
SRI present the “Mother of all Demo’s”
to “Augment Human Capabilities”.
• They also introduce the idea of the
mouse.

4. • In 1975 a 200+ person team at Parc invent
the GUI.
• This included several former SRI employees

5. • Steve Jobs thought this was a good idea

6. • Then in 1990 Tim Berners Lee invented the
world wide web.

7. • We continue to riff on these modalities.

8. The reign of the GUI
• About a decade for most of us
• Norman Neilson Group is a benchmark
• Universities produce UX expertise
• UI design is seen as paramount
• Experience Design and GUI design conflate

9. Enabled a generation
• we are all always on always available
• the ability to produce large amounts of text
• the ability to produce large volumes of work
• computer languages are an expected literacy

10. but there are
drawbacks

11. Harms our bodies

12. Separates ‘work’ from ‘play’
A schism which means we fully honor neither.

13. Who will invent the
next UI revolution?

14. By 2020 the keyboard and
mouse may be history

15. Universities may specialize
in Experience Design

16. Students may specialize
in the bio mechanics of
gesture driven UI

17. Work may look more
like dance

18. Full body patterns may
inform the next
generation UI
performant public and visible gestures
gestures selected for form as well as function
sign language
dance
taekwondo
capoeira
tai chi
contact improv
parkour

19. What will the gesture
stack be?
grabbing, clapping hands, sweeping arms, swimming
motions, rock paper scissors, waving hello or goodbye,
air marshalling, fist bump, thumbs up, bowing, genuflect,
handshake, salute, gang signs
move things, stretch, copy, cut and paste, zoom in,
stretch, stack
connect objects, wire inputs to outputs, aesthetically
arrange code in shared space,

20. Thank you
http://slowcode.makerlab.org
@gaffta
@anselm
@paigesaez
@makerlab
@ardevcamp