Book
Michael Friedewald: "Der Computer als Werkzeug und Medium: Die geistigen und technischen Wurzeln des Personal Computers".
Berlin; Diepholz: Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaft und Technik, 1999, ISBN: 3-928186-47-7
Article
Brad A. Myers: "A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology".
ACM interactions, March 1998, pp. 44-54.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~amulet/papers/uihistory.tr.html
Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush: "As We May Think", 1945
http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/pub/vbush/vbush-all.shtml
Douglas C. Engelbart
Douglas C. Engelbart: "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework", 1962
http://www.bootstrap.org/augdocs/friedewald030402/augmentinghumanintellect/ahi62index.html
1968 Demo. Douglas C. Engelbart and his SRI fellows presents the NLS system and the mouse.
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html
Bootstrap Institute: History in pictures
http://www.bootstrap.org/chronicle/pix/pix.html
Interview with Douglas C. Engelbart, 1996.
http://www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/features/mouse/mouse.html
Xerox Star
Dr. David Canfield Smith, Charles Irby, Ralph Kimball, Bill Verplank, Eric Harslem: "Designing the Star User Interface".
Byte, 4/1982, pp. 242-282.
http://www.aci.com.pl/mwichary/guidebook/articles/historical/designingthestaruserinterface
Jeff Johnson, Teresa L. Roberts, William Verplank, David C. Smith, Charles Irby, Marian Beard, Kevin Mackey: "The Xerox Star: A Retrospective". IEEE Computer, September 1989, pp. 11-26, 28-29.
http://www.digibarn.com/friends/curbow/star/retrospect/
David Liddle: "Design of the Conceptual Model", in Bringing Design to Software ↑ Books
http://hci.stanford.edu/bds/2-liddle.html
Terry Winograd: "Profile 2. The Alto and the Star", in Bringing Design to Software ↑ Books
http://hci.stanford.edu/bds/2p-star.html
Video: Xerox Star Interface: An Overview [Xerox], SIGGRAPH Video Review Issue 56 - CHI '90 Techincal Video Program
Video: The Final Demonstration of the Xerox 'Star' Computer, 1981. Xerox PARC, June 17, 1998 (2 tapes, TRT 1:59:00 + 21:30).
Apple Lisa
Roderick Perkins, Dan Smith Keller, Frank Ludolph: "Inventing the Lisa user interface". Interactions, Jan/Feb 1997, 40-53.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jasonh/cs39i-seminar/p40-perkins.pdf PDF, 1 MB
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Reducing the Semantic Distance
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Human-Computer Interaction