Visual Language and Performance Graphics: The Work of Fred Lakin and His Colleagues
Channel: BayCHI, San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIGCHI
Date: 24/02/2021

This is the BayCHI program presented October 13, 2020.

The first people to consider visual interactions on computers were Stanley Weinbaum, in Pygmalion's Spectacles, and Vannevar Bush, in As We May Think. In the mid-1960s, Ivan Sutherland demonstrated visual interactions in his Sketchpad software, and Douglas Engelbart used visual interaction in his Natural Language System (NLS). By the 1980s, visual interfaces came of age. Fred Lakin promoted the ideas of performance graphics and visual language, and collaborated with many people. We have the treat of having some of these people's comments on visual language and Fred Lakin who died in 2019.

Panelists:

Larry Leifer was Lakin's patron and the creator of Stanford's Center for Design Research.

Gayle Curtis Lakin's office-mate and colleague.

Scott Kim is a visdin member, visual language practitioner, and theorist.

Warren Robinette is a visdin member and visual language creator.

Henry Lieberman is a Lakin colleague.

Ted Selker, a Lakin colleague, moderates this session.