Archive for April, 2007

UIs in the Movies

04Apr07

A recent paper by Michael Schmitz, a stu­dent at Saar­land Uni­ver­sity (a fas­ci­nat­ing insti­tu­tion near the bor­ders of Ger­many, France, Lux­em­bourg and Bel­gium), sur­veys sev­eral dif­fer­ent user inter­faces from sci­ence fic­tion movies through­out film his­tory. Human Com­puter Inter­ac­tion in Sci­ence Fic­tion Movies cites sev­eral films, includ­ing Metrop­o­lis, Johnny Mnemonic, The Matrix, Logan’s Run, For­bid­den Planet, […]