Embodied user interfaces for really direct manipulation
Kenneth P. Fishkin, Anuj U. Gujar, Beverly L. Harrison, Thomas P. Moran, Roy Want · Communications of the ACM · 2000
A major event in the history of human-computer interaction was the advent of the graphical user interface at Xerox PARC in the 1970s.The GUI was based on a bitmapped display, making the interface to the computer primarily a visual medium, along with a pointing device (typically a mouse), enabling the user to point to parts of the display.The GUI transformed HCI from communication in an arcane textual language to a visual and manipulative activity.1 Mark Weiser promoted the similar concept of ubiquitous computing [7], where computation is distributed throughout the physical world.He also termed this approach "embodied virtuality."